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Title: Erec and Enide by Chretien De Troyes, Burton Raffel, Chretien De Troyes ISBN: 0-300-06771-2 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Sprightly trans. of the 1st Arthurian Romance
Comment: With Arthurian Romances seemingly always staging a comeback, how nice to have a fast-read, "words-a-poppin" translation of the very first Arthurian Romance, written in Old French around 1170. What I found most intriquing was that the book essentially wrestles with the ways in which men and women define themselves when becoming partners. Erec's rather pig-headed forcing of Enide to lead the way in the forest and never speak to him has odd contemporary overtones. But they are sweet compared to the couple they meet in Erec's final quest in the book - wait until you find out who "The Joy of the Court" is. Burton Raffel's translation, even if you don't like poetry, reads like a smooth silver skate.
I gave the book a "9" instead of "10" because it doesn't have any illustrations. I know it's a University Press, but come on folks, with a story about knights couldn't you throw in at least one old woodcut or something
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Title: Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart by Chretien, Burton Raffel ISBN: 0300071213 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Yvain: The Knight of the Lion by Chretien De Troyes ISBN: 0300038380 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1987 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson, J.M. Gray ISBN: 0140422536 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Perceval: The Story of the Grail by Chretien, Burton Raffel, Chretien De Troyes ISBN: 0300075863 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Perceval or the Story of the Grail by Chretien, Ruth Harwood Cline ISBN: 0820308129 Publisher: University of Georgia Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1985 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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