In 1752, the Abbé de Marsy published Le Rabelais moderne. This article analyzes this edition by comparing it, for the first time, to that of Jacob Le Duchat, published in 1741. While Le Duchat’s edition respected Rabelais’s text down to the slightest detail and was addressed to a knowledgeable readership, the Abbé de Marsy transferred passages to the footnotes and modernized the language, less to censor the obscenities than to appeal to the fashionable elite, making Rabelais a follower of Epicurean philosophy.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-406-14855-5
EAN:9782406148555
ISSN: 2554-9111
DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-14855-5.p.0069
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 06-28-2023
Periodicity: Annual
Language: French
Keyword: reception, Enlightenment, annotation, preface, establishment of the text, notes, clarifications, interpretive keys, allegorical reading, Rococo aesthetic