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As a book-category, "François Rabelais" (or "Rabelaisian") denotes works that mix exuberant, bawdy comedy and grotesque bodily humor with erudite satire and humanist learning: picaresque or episodic adventures, large appetites (for food, drink, experience), and carnival-like reversal of social norms. Such books gleefully mash high and low registers, invent words, deploy digressive, digressive narrative eruptions and classical allusions to lampoon institutions—church, law, scholasticism—and to celebrate human freedom, curiosity, and the potential for education and reform. Expect rollicking physical comedy, surreal or hyperbolic episodes, moral and political parody, playful linguistic virtuosity, and an overall tone that is both earthy and intellectually subversive.

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