by François Rabelais · Schoenhofs Foreign Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070367733
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«Gargantua» is the satirical novel by François Rabelais, published by Schoenhofs Foreign Books in paperback (444 pages, in French).
The novel recounts the life of the giant Gargantua: his birth, his early years devoted to eating, drinking and sleeping, and then his education. Rabelais mixes the burlesque with erudition and turns the narrative into a satire of education, religion and power in Renaissance France.
Published in 1965, it belongs to the Folio classique collection (no. 773), with complete text and a preface by Michel Butor.
Intended for readers interested in the classics of French literature and Renaissance satire.
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.
