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Arbitrium, January 2006
A fine volume with excellent translations...this should become the
standard translation
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standard translation
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Vast in its scope, incomparably dense in its imagery, Parzival ranks alongside Dante's Divine Comedy as one of the foremost narrative works to emerge from medieval Europe. 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. Full of incident and excitement, the story involves deeds of chivalry, tournaments and sieges, courtly love and other erotic adventures. Parzival's quest becomes a moral and spiritual journey of self-discovery, as he learns that he must repent of his past misdeeds if he is to succeed. Exuberant and Gothic in its telling, as well as 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 Baudolino. Cyril Edwards's fine translation also includes the fragments of Titurel, an elegiac offshoot of Parzival..
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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It is a heavy book so I could put it down, but that was almost the only reason. It is a wonderful version of the grail legend and is well translated, so that it retains a flavour of the old german and literally rolls along. It took a long time to read because it covers such a wide range of emotional territory but I never wanted to stop, I never wanted it to end.
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The best in English
19 Sep 2007
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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.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Not a Parzival for the General Reader
8 Jan 2012
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This not the Parzival to read if you just want to follow the storyline. While this reviewer doesn't have the Middle High German to discuss the faithfulness of Edward's translation, this reviewer does have enough modern English to pronounce the book close to unreadable. For example, whatever reason Edwards had to preserve the German language word order of sentences, as he does from time to time, it's far outweighed by lack of accessibility. In addition, the preservation of "ambiguities" prevents the reader from following the action. This is a Parzival for scholars and specialists. Contains extensive, helpful end notes that illuminate many obscurities in the text, however. If you just want to know what happens, you'd be better of with the popular Hatto or Mustard and Passage translations.
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