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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
    • Le géant Gargantua naît par l'oreille gauche de sa mère après onze mois de gestation. On le voit, dans Gargantua, il ne faut rien prendre au sérieux, ni les aventures du géant débonnaire, ni les rencontres qu'il fait - occasion d'une réjouissante galerie de portraits : Grandgousier et Gargamelle, ses parents, grands amateurs de tripes ; Thubal Holoferne, son premier précepteur, qui lui apprend à réciter l'alphabet à l'envers ; maître Janotus de Bragmardo, doyen de la très sérieuse Faculté, délirant en latin, ou encore Frère Jean, plus prompt à se battre qu'à suivre la messe.

      Gargantua