Francois Rabelais (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Francois Rabelais

In my discussion of Rabelais's work I have assumed less knowledge on the part of my readers than I should have done if I had been writing for Frenchmen, and accordingly I have given a more or less detailed analysis of Gargantua and Pantagruel. I have also quoted from the text here and there at con siderable length, using for this purpose the admirable translation of Mr. W. F. Smith, which adheres much more closely to the original than does Urquhart's classical work. In some of the shorter passages quoted the transla tion is my own.

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Excerpt from Francois Rabelais

The publication of Des Maret's sand Rathery sedition of Rabelaiss works, in 1857, marked a new epoch in the study of Rabelais. To this edition was prefixed a Life, by Rathery, in which, for the first time, all the legendary matter was carefully pruned away, and no fact was admitted that was not based upon trustworthy evidence. During the last fifty years this biography has held the field, and except for one or two important discoveries made by M. Heulhard in connection with Rabelaiss visit to Italy, and embodied in his book, Rabelais, his Travels in Italy, his Exile at Metz (Rabelais, ses Voyages en Italie, son Exil à Metz)(1891), little addition has been made to our knowledge of Rabelais until very recently.

But at the close of 1902 a fresh impetus was given to Rabelaisian studies by the foundation of the Societe des Etudes Rabelaisiennes, with M. Abel Lefranc as its first President.

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