Abstract: Rabelaisian self-citations shed light on the making of a Pantagruelian mythology. Through the bestiary deployed in the anticlerical episodes of The Fifth Book, this article contemplates the representations of an Erasmian anti-formalism found in Gargantua: the interweaving of attacks on clerical celibacy in The Fifth Book with discussions in The Third Book, and the paradigm shift evidenced in the diffracted features of the land of Satin in several episodes of the second Fourth Book.
