by François Rabelais · Edicións Laiovento, S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788484870593
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The Fourth Book by François Rabelais, published by Edicións Laiovento, is a work that has been interpreted in various ways: as an initiatory journey, an alchemist's quest, a topographical miscellany, a mythical itinerary, or an allegorical architecture. Analyses agree that it is a transposition of contemporary reality in the form of satire against the Papacy and in support of Gallican politics. In this work, Rabelais' verbal mastery, fertile fantasy, and biting diatribe reach their climax. This edition features a translation by Henrique Harguindey Banet.
François Rabelais was a French writer who has been called the first great French prose author. A humanist of the French Renaissance and Greek scholar, he attracted opposition from both Protestant theologian John Calvin and from the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. Though in his day he was best known as a physician, scholar, diplomat, and Catholic priest, later he became better known as a satirist for his depictions of the grotesque, and for his larger-than-life characters.
