Pantagruel
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(in Rabelais'Pantagruel ) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
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(italics) a satirical novel (1532) by Rabelais.
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All these initial chapters of “Monkey King” exhibit a rollicking exuberance, somewhat like Rabelais’s hyperbolic accounts of the giants Gargantua and Pantagruel.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2021
Surely Don Quixote or Moby Dick or Gargantua and Pantagruel would all be classed as postmodern novels, but they were written in the 17th, 19th and 16th centuries respectively – so what’s going on there?
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2012
In 1552, in a list of fantastical desserts in Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, we find hard written evidence that the word macaron meant a dessert.
From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2011
Rabelais's 16th-century Gargantua and Pantagruel resembled any number of gargantuan, Rabelaisian 20th-century novels from James Joyce's Ulysses to Gilbert Sorrentino's Mulligan Stew.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 23, 2010
“Friar John” is a mighty man of valor, who figures equivocally in the story of Gargantua and Pantagruel.
From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver
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