Parzival and Titurel

by Wolfram von Eschenbach

Other authorsRichard Barber (Introduction), Cyril Edwards (Translator)
Paperback, 2006

Status

Available

Call number

831.21

Collection

Publication

Oxford University Press, USA (2006), Paperback, 464 pages

Description

Vast in its scope, incomparably dense in its imagery, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival ranks alongside Dante's Divine Comedy as one of the foremost narrative works to emerge from medieval Europe. This book is a new translation of Parzival, together with the fragments of the Titurel, an elegiac offshoot of Parzival, and the nine love-songs attributed to Wolfram.

User reviews

LibraryThing member karl.steel
I honestly don't know what to make of this. Somehow everything I understood in Chrétien, refracted through Wolfram, became confusing: why does Parzival disappear for almost the entire narrative? What's Gawain's point? Why the proliferation and names? What accounts for this paratactic aesthetic? I
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know it'd be fun to teach the authorial intrusions, and I'm sure the German is itself unbearably dense, probably the sort of thing that'd reward a life's attention. But lord knows I'll never put this on a syllabus: it's just too smart for me.
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Language

Original language

German

Original publication date

early 13th century

Physical description

464 p.; 7.6 inches

ISBN

0192806157 / 9780192806154
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