by François Rabelais · Editions Flammarion · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782080701800
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«La Vie Très Horrifique du Grand Gargantua» is the satirical novel by François Rabelais, published by Flammarion in paperback, in French.
The work recounts the life of the giant Gargantua, from his birth and peculiar education to his adult exploits. Rabelais uses these adventures to parody scholastic teaching and religious authority, and to defend a humanist vision, with exuberant, scatological humour and a constant obsession with food.
It belongs to the «Gargantua and Pantagruel» series and was originally published in 1534. This 1993 edition includes a chronology, preface, introduction and glossary.
A French edition with critical apparatus, intended for students of French literature and readers of 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.
