by Michel Ragon · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782226067319
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«Le roman de Rabelais» is Michel Ragon's biographical novel, published by Albin Michel in paperback, in French.
The biographical novel follows François Rabelais, author of Gargantua and Pantagruel, from a convent in Vendée to the papal court in Rome. Michel Ragon portrays him as a physician, cleric, and irreverent writer persecuted by the Inquisition, and traces a humane, lucid, and disillusioned portrait of a man who defended freedom in an age of fractures.
Work written in French, published in 1993; won the Prix Maison de la Presse 1994 in the novel category.
Suitable for readers of historical fiction and biographies, interested in the French Renaissance and the figure of Rabelais.
Michel Ragon was a French art and literature critic and writer. His primary focus was on anarchic and libertarian literature.
