The Red Lily by Anatole France: “do you know the 'Pantagruel?' ... French women do not read the 'Pantagruel.'”
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes: “the following works: Pantagruel, Jude the Obscure, Baudelaire's poems, all Kafka, The Snows of Kilimanjaro – and Madame Bovary.”