Rabelais
Americannoun
noun
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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
In the mid-1500s, Francois Rabelais described a character whose yawn was so wide-mouthed “that by mutual sympathy he set his companions yawning likewise.”
From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2017
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
Likewise, a six-foot man cannot be scaled up to thirty feet, Rabelais notwithstanding.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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