This is a new release of the original 1931 edition.

Books about The Rabelaisian Princess, Madame Royale of France

The French humanist Rabelais (ca. 1483-1553) was the greatest French writer of the Renaissance and one of the most influential authors of all time. Though a ribald satire, his Gargantua and Pantagruel offers a broad discussion of religion, philosophy, politics, and education and reflects the issues confronting the 16th century.

Author Max Gauna has contributed to Rabelaisian studies an analysis of the author's four authentic novels, considered in the light of his own description of them as mythologies. In the preface, Gauna remarks that such an enterprise requires attention to meaning and recognizes that meaning itself is called into question

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.