"Gargantiua i Pantagriuel" - veselaia, temperamentnaia entsiklopediia nravov evropeiskogo Renessansa. Velikii Rable podobral takoi kliuch k zhizni, k narodnomu tvorchestvu, chtoby na stranitsakh romana zhizn" zabila kliuchom, ne issiakaiuschim v vekakh, - i raskaty ego gomercheskogo khokhota ego geroev do sikh por slyshny v mirovoi literature. V romane "Gargantiua i Pantagriuel" chudesnym obrazom uzhivaiutsia otkrovennaia nasmeshka i slozhnyi grotesk, nepristoinost" i glubina. "Rable sobiral mudrost" v narodnoi stikhii starinnykh provintsial"nykh narechii, pogovorok, poslovits, shkol"nykh farsov, iz ust durakov i shutov. No, prelomliaias" cherez eto shutovstvo, raskryvaiutsia vo vsem svoem velichii genii veka i ego prorocheskaia sila", - pisal istorik Mishle. Etot shedevr venchaet karnaval"nuiu kul"turu Srednevekov"ia, prolivaia "obratnyi svet na tysiacheletiia razvitiia narodnoi smekhovoi kul"tury". Zarazitel"nyi rablezianskii smekh ozdorovil literaturu i navsegda pokoril shirokuiu chitatel"skuiu auditoriiu. Bogateishaia iazykovaia palitra romana sokhranena zamechatel"nym perevodom N.Liubimova, a iarkaia obraznost" nashla ideal"noe vyrazhenie v illiustratsiiakh frantsuzskogo khudozhnika Gustava Dore.. .. "