Cligès

by Chrétien de Troyes

Book Overview

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:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300070217
• ISBN13: 9780300070217
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"