On the other hand, when he writes, 'Such an one says,' it would be difficult enough to find who is meant, for the 'such an one' is a fictitious writer.
The method is amusing, but it is curious to account of it.
The question of the Chronique Gargantuaine is still undecided.

Is it by Rabelais or by someone else?
Both theories are defensible, and can be supported by good reasons.

In the Chronique everything is heavy, occasionally meaningless, and nearly always insipid.

Can the same man have written the Chronique and Gargantua, replaced a book really commonplace by a masterpiece, changed the facts and incidents, transformed a heavy icy pleasantry into a work glowing with wit and life, made it no longer a mass of laborious trifling and cold-blooded exaggerations but a satire on human life of the highest genius?
Still there are points common to the two.
Besides, Rabelais wrote other things; and it is only in his romance that he shows literary skill.

The conception of it would have entered his mind first only in a bare and summary fashion.