Clig?s by Chr?tien de Troyes
Clig?s by Chr?tien de Troyes

Clig?s

In this extraordinarily fine translation of Clig?s, the second of five surviving Arthurian poems by twelfth-century French...
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Author: Chr?tien de Troyes
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Clig?s by Chr?tien de Troyes

Clig?s

$146.69
Clig?s by Chr?tien de Troyes

Clig?s

$146.69
Author: Chr?tien de Troyes
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
In this extraordinarily fine translation of Clig?s, the second of five surviving Arthurian poems by twelfth-century French poet Chr?tien de Troyes, Burton Raffel captures the liveliness, innovative spirit, and subtle intentions of the original work. In this poem, Chr?tien creates his most artful plot and paints the most starkly medieval portraits of any of his romances. The world he describes has few of the safeguards and protections of civilization: battles are brutal and merciless, love is anguished and desperate. Clig?s tells the story of the unhappy Fenice, trapped in a marriage of constraint to the emperor of Constantinople. Fenice feigns death, then awakens to a new, happy life with her lover.

Enormously popular in their own time, each of Chr?tien's great verse romances is a fast-paced psychologically oriented narrative. In a rational and realistic manner, Chr?tien probes the inner workings of his characters and the world they live in, evoking the people, their customs, and their values in clear, emotionally charged verse. Clig?s is filled with Chr?tien's barbs and bawdiness, his humor and his pleasure, his affection and his contempt. It is the unmistakable work of a brilliantly individualistic poet, brought to modern English readers by Raffel's poetic translation in a metric form invented specifically to reflect Chr?tien's narrative speed and tone.

Author: Chr?tien de Troyes
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 07/21/1997
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.41h x 5.49w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9780300070217

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