Article: The Design of Rabelais's Pantagruel.

Edwin Duval's exegesis of Rabelais's Pantagruel is a brilliant and painstakingly researched piece of work. Rich in insights, it is consistently erudite, dense, generous, even humorous at times; always contributive, it is indeed an award-winning book. Superbly organized, cogently and powerfully argued, written gracefully and with conviction, Duval's revolutionary Design tramples roundly in the dust any lingering notions of structural disorder, misshapenness, and improvisation ("un livre improvise sans plan bien ferme" [Saulnier]), lack of intensity and interest (a "rather dull novel" [Screech]), and other criticisms frequently ascribed to Rabelais's first book. Sic transit ...

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