by François Rabelais · Ediciones Akal · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788446022169
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Immerse yourself in the hilarious and satirical work of François Rabelais, 'Gargantua'. This edition, published by Akal, offers a new translation of the Renaissance masterpiece. Discover a critical and passionate portrait of 16th-century French society and culture, full of irony and wit. The text is complemented by chronologies, bibliographies, and an index of names and places, facilitating immersion in the many recesses of this brilliant book.
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.
