Rabelais
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The academy noted that Oe’s work has been strongly influenced by Western writers, including Dante, Poe, Rabelais, Balzac, Eliot and Sartre.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2023
On a busy street during the middle of the day, I was witnessing a grotesque and carnivalesque spectacle like something Mikhail Bakhtin would have written about in "Rabelais and His World."
From Salon ● May 9, 2022
Umberto Eco, the celebrated Bolognese semiotican and Joyce scholar, brings us a new world in the tradition of Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Melville, Dostoevsky, Joyce himself, and Garcia-Marquez.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2016
Said to have been fancied by that epic gourmand Rabelais, it is made only in the Adour River basin in southwest France, bordered by the Pyrenees and the Atlantic Ocean.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2015
This is quite different from the world of Rabelais.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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