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Not So Rabelais
Nock, Albert Jay | October 16, 1929 issue

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This article literally appraises the book "All the Extant Works of Francois Rabelais an American Translation with Vartoruin Notes by Samuel Putnam." The works of Rabelais were first translated into English in the seventeenth century by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Motteux. Their work remains one of the great classics of our language; only one other translation surpasses it. With the exception of the King James version of the Bible, it is the best example of what our language can do by way of reproducing upon an alien reader the total effect produced by an original upon a native reader.

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ALL the Extant Works of Francois Rabelais: An American Translation (Book); RABELAIS, Francois, ca. 1490-1553?; BIBLE; LITTERATEURS; LITERATURE; BOOKS & reading
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