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The late Donald Frame’s new translation of Rabelais is fluent, resourceful, and, I believe, accurate, a scholar’s long labor of love. 1 Since few except specialists are at ease in his ...
IT was probably a touch of mischief on the part of Edith Wharton that made her call her new novel “Hudson River Bracketed.” It’s an unwieldy title, its application to the story is remote and it ...
IN a thesis for a doctorate in medicine at the University of Paris, Dr. Mottron has chosen to extract from the books of Gargantua and Pantagruel all the references to syphilis ("Rabelais et la Verole" ...