Rabelais And His World Mikhail Bakhtin

Bakhtin, Mikhail – Helene Iswolsky [trans.] Rabelais and His World. Cambridge: Very Good. 8vo. Leaves lightly toned, otherwise internally clean. Publisher’s yellow cloth, spine lettered in black, in the original pictorial dustjacket; front hinge a little loose, corners bumped, some minor rubbing to the cloth, dustjacket with some minor smudging, tiny nicks and short closed tears to extremities, one slightly longer closed tear to front panel with tape repair on verso. First American edition of Bakhtin’s encyclopedic work on Francois Rabelais. “Attending closely to Rabelais' language, Bakhtin points out that his exceptional linguistic freedom coincided with the Renaissance struggle at an intersection of many languages, idioms, jargons, and dialects. Rabelais and His World is a deeply appreciative analysis of the little-known tradition of folk humor as it preserved the creative and various life of the people and was brought to fulfillment over a thousand years or so in Rabelais' work.”