Description
In this verse translation of Perceval; or, The Story of the Grail, Ruth Harwood Cline restores to life the thematically crucial Arthurian tale of the education of a knight in his search for the Holy Grail.
Cline's translation, faithful to the highly synthetic, deliberately ornate nature of medieval French, follows Perceval from his home in Wales, through his rich and raucous adventures as a member of the fraternity of knights, to his climactic meeting with the Fisher King. Paralyzed by his first glimpse of the Grail, Perceval fails to save the ailing king. Distraught, the knight begins a new quest for the Grail, a journey on the road of penitence and faith. Perceval's venture, the true test of his knighthood, ends without conclusion; the death of author Chr tien de Troyes left unsaid and undetermined the success of Perceval's quest.Author: Chrétien de Troyes
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 10/01/1985
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.76d
ISBN13: 9780820308128
ISBN10: 0820308129
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | European | General
- Literary Criticism | Medieval
About the Author
CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES (1135?-1191?) was a French poet and trouvère. He is widely regarded as the creator of the literary genre known as the Arthurian romance, and the originator of the heroic medieval character Lancelot.