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The academy noted that Oe’s work has been strongly influenced by Western writers, including Dante, Poe, Rabelais, Balzac, Eliot and Sartre.

This is quite different from the world of Rabelais.

All these initial chapters of “Monkey King” exhibit a rollicking exuberance, somewhat like Rabelais’s hyperbolic accounts of the giants Gargantua and Pantagruel.

It certainly came well after Renaissance writer �������ç�Ǿ��� Rabelais – who revelled in Lyon’s culinary traditions, depicting the tawdry delights of offal and cheap cuts in Gargantua and Pantagruel.

Many doctors, too, have written fiction, quite a long and interesting list, among them Rabelais, Chekhov, Bulgakov, Céline and William Carlos Williams, all practicing physicians who were also writing.