The quest of the Holy Grail / translated with an introd. by P.M. Matarasso.
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TextSeries: Penguin classicsPublication details: Baltimore : Penguin Books, c2005, 1969.Description: 304 p. ; 18 cmISBN: - 0140442200
- 9780140442205
- Queste del Saint Graal. English.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Composed by an unknown author in early thirteenth-century France, The Quest of the Holy Grail is a fusion of Arthurian legend and Christian symbolism, reinterpreting ancient Celtic myth as a profound spiritual fable. It recounts the quest of the knights of Camelot - the simple Perceval, the thoughtful Bors, the rash Gawain, the weak Lancelot and the saintly Galahad - as they journey through danger and temptation to reach the elusive Holy Grail. But only one of them is judged worthy to see the mysteries within the sacred vessel, and look upon the ineffable. Enfused with tragic grandeur and an aura of mysticism, The Quest is an absorbing and radiant allegory of man's perilous search for divine grace, and had a profound influence on later Arthurian romances and versions of the Grail legend.
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Departure -- Shield -- Presumption punished - castle of the maidens -- Sir Gawain sets out -- Lancelot's conviction and repentance -- Peregrinations of Perceval -- Lancelot: Slow ascent -- Sir Gawain and Hector warned in vision -- Trials and temptations of Bors -- Miraculous ship -- Legend of the tree of life -- Adventures of the three companions -- Parting -- Lancelot at Corbenic -- Holy Grail -- Notes.