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Françoise Rabelais

    François Rabelais was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor, and humanist. He is historically regarded as a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, and both bawdy jokes and songs. Rabelais is considered one of the great writers of world literature and among the creators of modern European writing.

    Gargantua
    Gargantua & Pantagruel
    • Gargantua & Pantagruel

      • 720 pages
      • 26 hours of reading
      3.7(13637)Add rating

      Francios Rabelais (c. 1494-1553), a Franciscan monk who also qualified as a Bachelor of Medicine, was at the centre of the humanist movement and had absorbed a vast amount of learning. Gargantua and Pantagruel parodies everyone from eminent classical authors and schoolmen to Rabelais's own acquaintances. But the brilliance of the book lies not merely in these learned references, but in the seamless story into which they are woven, and in the passion and swiftness of language of an acknowledged master of satire.

      Gargantua & Pantagruel
    • Gargantua

      • 280 pages
      • 10 hours of reading
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      Pantagruel censuré, Rabelais récidive avec Gargantua, ogre démesuré et grand seigneur de Touraine dont les aventures paraissent encore suspectes aux théologiens. Monstre de paresse, abruti de religion durant son enfance, il échappe au pédantisme des " vieux tousseux" de la Sorbonne, dérobe au passage les cloches de Notre-Dame se cultive enfin auprès de l'humaniste Ponocratès, son maître. Survient la fabuleuse " guerre picrocholine ", née d'une querelle entre vignerons et boulangers tourangeaux, où se distingue le merveilleux frère Jean des Entommeures. En récompense, le moine utopiste pourra édifier son abbaye de Thélème où tolérance et liberté feront loi. D'un mot, Victor Hugo définissait Rabelais : " Son éclat de rire est un des gouffres de l'esprit ".

      Gargantua