A01=François Rabelais
Author_François Rabelais
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Product details
- ISBN 9780393308068
- Weight: 800g
- Dimensions: 140 x 211mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jun 1992
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Rabelais's vigorous examination of the life of his times-from bizarre battles to great drinking bouts, from satire on religion and education to matter-of-fact descriptions of bodily functions and desires-is one of the great comic masterpieces of literature.
Burton Raffel is Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Emeritus. He is the translator of many works, including Gargantua and Pantagruel (awarded the French-American Foundation Translation Prize), Pere Goriot, Beowulf, and the five romances of Chrétien de Troyes.
