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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. A German adaptation of the story of Erec from Chretien de Troyes in a straightforward modern English prose translation. . ( ) Though I have never been able to find it in my heart to like the hero of this book, Erec, I really enjoyed reading this for the second time. The nature of male-female relationships in the European Middle Ages makes Erec appear more chauvinistic than he is and my tendency is, therefore, to view him with scorn. Yet my favorite scene in the narrative is when Enite, upset by the belief that Erec is dead, screams when her "rescuer" tries to force her into matrimony and begins to get violent. Erec, awakened from unconsciousness by her screams, charges into the room in grave clothes, whips a sword off the wall, and starts lopping off heads to avenge Enite. The rest of those attendant scatter in terror. Erec redeems himself considerably by the end of the narrative. Even though I struggle to come to terms with the wide cultural gap between this late 12th century narrative and my 21st century understanding, I find this work well worth reading and will certainly return to it again. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
As the earliest Arthurian verse-novel in the German language, Hartmann von Aue's Erec was highly influential, not only on the many Arthurian works that followed, but also on courtly narrative verse in general. However, his tale is of more than antiquarian interest. Its subjects--the individual in conflict with society and the destructive force of possessive love--are modern, and its language, when transferred into prose, is more direct and lucid than most contemporary writing. Indeed, it was the conviction that the story deserved a much larger audience than that of medieval scholars which inspired this translation, the first into English. No library descriptions found. |
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