by François Rabelais, Emmanuel Naya · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782072944383
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«Gargantua» is the satirical novel by François Rabelais, published by Folio in paperback (320 pages, in French).
The story follows the prodigious birth of the giant Gargantua, his humanist education and his adventures alongside his father Grandgousier in a world of banquets, mockery and a war against the neighboring kingdom; Rabelais combines parody and the fantastic with a reflection on man's place in the world.
Edition from the Folio+Lycée collection linked to the 2022 BAC syllabus, with complete modernized text, a dossier by Emmanuel Naya and the thematic paths «Rire et savoir» and «La bonne éducation».
Aimed at French high-school students and at those seeking an annotated edition of a Renaissance classic.
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.
