Gargantua and Pantagruel
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title:
Gargantua and Pantagruel
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The Five Books of the Lives and Deeds of Gargantua and Pantagruel, often shortened to Gargantua and Pantagruel or the Cinq Livres, is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais. It tells the adventures of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel. The work is written in an amusing, extravagant, and satirical vein, features much erudition, vulgarity, and wordplay, and is regularly compared with the works of William Shakespeare and James Joyce. Rabelais was a polyglo
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16th-century novels by François Rabelais
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargantua_and_Pantagruel
date created:
2003-03-11T04:22:46Z
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2024-09-02T19:20:36Z
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