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    Gargantua and Pantagruel (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

    By Francois Rabelais and Michael Randall

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    Some books are good for you, and some books are fun to read, but few books are both; Rabelais' novels are among these few. A cornucopia of jokes, unforgettable characters, filth, sex, philosophy, and religion, Rabelais' novels create our cultural DNA while they make us laugh. When we laugh at the mythical giants Pantagruel and Gargantua and their companions we laugh at ourselves. All the while we are following the heroes and their friends and enemies as they react to the burgeoning world of modern nation states, modern science, modern law, and modern forms of religion, we can see how we have become what we are today. Without Rabelais and his contemporaries Cervantes and Shakespeare, modernity would not exist as we know it.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarnes & Noble
    Release dateSep 1, 2009
    ISBN9781411430310
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    Gargantua and Pantagruel (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
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    Francois Rabelais

    François Rabelais est un écrivain français humaniste de la Renaissance, né à la Devinière à Seuilly, près de Chinon, en 1483 ou 1494 selon les sources, et mort à Paris le 9 avril 1553.

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