Parzival and Titurel (Oxford World's Classics) |
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Written in the first decade of the thirteenth century, Parzival is the greatest of the medieval Grail romances. It tells of Parzival's growth from youthful folly to knighthood at the court of King Arthur, and of his quest for the Holy Grail. Exuberant and gothic in its telling, and profoundly moving, Parzival has inspired and influenced works as diverse as Wagner's Parsifal and Lohengrin, Terry Gilliam's film The Fisher King, and Umberto Eco's Bandolino.
This fine translation, the first English version for over 25 years, conveys the power of this complex, wide-ranging medieval masterpiece. The introduction places Eschenbach's work in the wider context of the development of the Arthurian romance and of the Grail legend. This edition also includes an index to proper names and a genealogical table, and is the first to combine Parzival with the fragments of Titurel.
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Customer Reviews:
• The Best In English
19 September, 2007
Parzival is a very difficult work to read, let alone translate, and Edwards has done an admirable job here. He states in his introduction that he has chosen to retain the many ambiguities of Wolfram von Eschenbach's language - which necessarily makes the work harder to understand - and that is a difficult, but correct decision. It means that the translation does not give us what we often crave - an easy entry into what we're reading. But it's an honest translation, and a good one insofar as that is at all possible: it's far better to translate ambiguity as ambiguity, than to try and make things clearer.
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