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Gargantua and Pantagruel: Introduction by Terence Cave - Rabelais, Francois, and Cave, Terence (Introduction by), and Urquhart, Thomas, Sir (Translated by)
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The unfettered exuberance of Gargantua and Pantagruel , the storms of phenomenal life it offers for our inspection, the honor it gives to the deformed, the cloacal, and the profane aspects of existence are at the very heart of Rabelais' genius. But the author of this fantasia on the lives of a father-and-son pair of giants was one of the most magnificent and magnificently learned products of the Renaissance; and he also represents, as well as any of its other great figures, that era's love of the human body and its ...

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Gargantua and Pantagruel: Introduction by Terence Cave 1994, Everyman's Library, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780679431374

Hardcover