Yvain
- 104 Seiten
- 4 Lesestunden
Chrétien de Troyes Bücher
1. Jänner 1135 – 1. Jänner 1181
Chrétien de Troyes gilt als Vater der Artus-Romane und als Schlüsselfigur der westlichen Literatur. Seine im späten 12. Jahrhundert auf Französisch verfassten Werke zeichnen sich durch Gelehrsamkeit und einen Sinn für Dialektik aus, die er vermutlich in Lateinschulen erworben hat. Zugleich offenbaren sie eine herzliche menschliche Anteilnahme, die seinen Charakteren und Situationen Leben einhaucht. Obwohl er Stoffe aus dem keltischen Mythos übernahm und die Handlung in die zeitlose Herrschaft von König Artus verlegte, spiegeln sich darin die Gesellschaft und Sitten seiner eigenen Zeit wider. Sein letztes, unvollendetes Werk führt den geheimnisvollen Gral erstmals in die Literatur ein.
This is the first truely critical edition of Chrétien de Troyes's „Perceval“ and will replace the often inaccurate text of Hilka (1932). This new edition is based on ms. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, fr. 12576 (T), but is moderately interventionist in its attempt to approximate more closely to the ipsissima verba of Chrétien; the critical text is accompanied by complete variants from the other manuscripts. The critical apparatus includes full descriptions of all the manuscripts of „Perceval“, an examination of the manuscript transmission of the text, and of the language of the scribe of T and of Chrétien; the notes contain a running commentary on the manuscript tradition and a justification of every emendation made to the text of T. The edition concludes with a full glossary.
The original version of one of the greatest and most potent of medieval legends.
Taking the legends surrounding King Arthur and weaving in new psychological elements of personal desire and courtly manner, Chrétien de Troyes fashioned a new form of medieval Romance. The Knight of the Cart is the first telling of the adulterous relationship between Lancelot and Arthur's Queen Guinevere, and in The Knight with the Lion Yvain neglects his bride in his quest for greater glory. Erec and Enide explores a knight's conflict between love and honour, Cligés exalts the possibility of pure love outside marriage, while the haunting The Story of the Grail chronicles the legendary quest. Rich in symbolism, these evocative tales combine closely observed detail with fantastic adventure to create a compelling world that profoundly influenced Malory, and are the basis of the Arthurian legends we know today.
Lancelot
- 254 Seiten
- 9 Lesestunden
This translation of Lancelot brings to English-language readers, the fourth of Chretien's five surviving romantic Arthurian poems. This poem was the first to introduce Lancelot as an important figure in the King Arthur legend.
