Rabelais et les Rabelaisants Pour une histoire des querelles critiques au xx^e siècle

“Twentieth-century Rabelais interpretation” is characterized by its extreme polemicism. For Rabelais’s five books have provoked no less than ten impassioned battles among scholars. The first five were born of the indignant reactions to Abel LeFranc’s work in the first thirty years of the century; the other five, just as virulent, arose during the latter half of the century.