Abstract: Based on the reception of Rabelais and the critical debates that the often conflicting interpretations of his text inspired in the twentieth century, we must think of what one can call a politics of form. The case of Louis-Ferdinand Céline is then emblematic of the gesture at once poetic and ideological that is engaged by the potentialities of a Rabelaisian language that not only reflects a crisis of the world and its representations, but the machine that helps to bring it about.
