KnowraFrançois RabelaisLinked fromLinked fromThe 8 pages that link to François Rabelais, each with the reason it gives.All 8Related 7Compared with 1French literatureRelated: His inventive satire helped stretch the possibilities of French prose.French RenaissanceRelated: His inventive prose brought humanist learning into exuberant vernacular fiction.Lucien FebvreRelated: Febvre used Rabelais to investigate the intellectual possibilities of sixteenth-century France.French Renaissance literatureRelated: His novels turn classical scholarship and contemporary debate into expansive comic fiction.Lucian of SamosataRelated: Rabelais’s learned mockery and extravagant fiction belong to Lucian’s later satirical afterlife.François VillonCompared with: Rabelais offers a later French counterpart whose expansive comic energy differs from Villon’s lyric compression.Gargantua and PantagruelRelated: He created the sequence and shaped its blend of learned satire and popular storytelling.Laurence SterneRelated: Sterne’s digressive comedy drew on a tradition associated with Rabelais.