by François Rabelais, Fiot · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782010017513
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«Gargantua» is the satirical novel by François Rabelais and Fiot, published by Hachette Littérature in paperback, in French.
The work narrates the life of Gargantua, father of Pantagruel, from his birth and education to adulthood. Through his adventures, Rabelais parodies medieval teaching, mocks ecclesiastical authority, and defends a humanist vision of knowledge, amid humor, banquets, and a burlesque tone typical of the Renaissance.
Adaptation by Jacques Dru in the Textes en français facile collection, published in 1991; belongs to the Gargantua and Pantagruel series.
For students of French and readers who want to start with classical literature through an adapted version in easy French.
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.
