Le Pantagruélisme est-il un humanisme ?

Humanism is a matter of circles, and Rabelais' entry into the world of fiction with Pantagruel describes a set of circles: those of the characters - the giant's companions - colleagues and learned friends woven into the novel, benevolent readers to whom Rabelais proposes an erudite, mischievous complicity. Pantagruelism is a way of reading just as much as a way of writing; its watchwords are joy and cheer, and it advocates a distinctive art of living.