Customer Reviews:
 Sugar-coated philosophy January 17, 2002
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is by far one of the most entertaining works of classical fiction ever written. Like the spoon full of sugar that helps the medicine go down, Rabelais' scatological humour renders his philosophical message, along with his criticisms of his contemporaries, very accessible. In tone it resembles other French classics, such as Voltaire's "Candide", and links can be easily drawn with the works of his fellow Humanists, such as Erasmus. Be warned, however that due to the nature of the subject matter and the humour, this is probably not a good choice for children, the impressionable, and people who find bodily functions, occasionally veiled slightly by euphemism, to be offensive.
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