Parzival and Titurel

by Wolfram von Eschenbach

Book Overview

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.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199539200
• ISBN13: 9780199539208
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.0" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

The best in English

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.