Volume 24, Number 16 · October 13, 1977
A Modern Master
By Gabriel Josipovici
François Rabelais: A Study
by Donald M. Frame
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 238 pp., $12.95
The moments in the history of art when a door is suddenly opened onto a wholly new range of possibilities are extremely rare. Monteverdi's Orfeo marks one such in the history of music; Cézanne's late canvases another, in the history of painting. The works of Rabelais, beginning with Pantagruel, first published in Lyons in 1532, most definitely mark one in the history of literature.
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