The text is provided by a translator who understands the spirit as well as the letter of the original and renders it with style T]his translation should attract a wide audience of students and Arthurian enthusiasts. 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 Cline's introduction--containing a In this verse translation of Chretien de Troyes's "Lancelot," Ruth Harwood Cline revives the original story of the immortal love affair between Sir Chretien de Troyes - ksiΔ ΕΌki.
KsiΔ ΕΌki na zamΓ³wienie. KsiΔ ΕΌka na prezent. Wyszukiwanie zaawansowane. Kategorie gΕΓ³wne. Arthurian Romances. Chretien de Troyes Carleton W. Carroll William W. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.
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