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Gargantua — Rabelais’s novel, published in 1534 or 1535 under a pseudonym
Its author’s second novel, published under the anagram that had already served him: the education and the wars of a giant, father of the one in the previous book. A plea for humanist culture against rigid teaching, written in a free and often coarse language. The sole copy of the first edition has lost its title page: neither place nor date appears on it. (Editorial synthesis)
Gargantua was published around 1535 (Julian calendar). (source: Encyclopædia Universalis)
Recorded author of Gargantua: Rabelais.
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