by François Rabelais · POINTS · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782020300322
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«Gargantua» is the satirical novel by François Rabelais, published by Points in paperback (408 pages, in French).
Gargantua, son of Grandgousier and father of Pantagruel, is born from his mother's ear demanding a drink. Raised in freedom, he is educated in ancient texts and nature. Satirical and humorous, the novel blends dream and reality to narrate the war against Picrochole and reflect on education, politics, and the human condition.
Second part of the Gargantua and Pantagruel series. Edition with the original text and its translation into modern French; translation, preface, and notes by Guy Demerson.
French Renaissance classic, ideal for students and for those who want to read Rabelais with the support of a version in modern 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.
