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For any questions about the book, suggestions on price, or offers to buy several books (additional discount is possible), as well as if you want to purchase it, you can contact me! Also, there are various books by Vita Nova that are not yet available =) See my other listings for sale of various books from different series of Vita Nova! Year of publication: 2006 Volume 1: ISBN: 5-93898-117-4 Pages: 704 Illustrations: 419 Volume 2 : Pages: 688 Illustrations: 408 Print run: 1500 copies. Out of print ABOUT THE BOOK Translation from French: N. M. Lyubimov Translation of poetic fragments: Y. B. Korneev Notes: S. D. Artamonov Article: M. M. Bakhtin Illustrations: G. Doré The outstanding monument of French Renaissance literature, belonging to the pen of François Rabelais (1494-1553), is published for the first time in Russia together with the complete cycle of illustrations by Gustave Doré, executed in the middle of the XIX century. Doré's illustrations are a recognized masterpiece of world book illustration and represent an impressive pictorial interpretation of Rabelais' novel. With exceptional persuasiveness they convey the fantastic, "carnivalesque" imaginative world of this book, called by A. France "the most bizarre. France called it "the most bizarre in world literature". This edition reproduces all five books of the novel in a remarkable translation by N. M. Lyubimov. The edition is provided with notes, a brief chronicle of Rabelais's life; the second volume contains an article by M. M. Bakhtin "Rabelais. M. Bakhtin's article "Rabelais in the History of Laughter.
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