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Gargantua and Pantagruel (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. 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.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
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François 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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