Parzival: A Romance of the Middle Ages (Vintage Classics) - Softcover

Wolfram Von Eschenbach

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394701887 ISBN 13: 9780394701882

Publisher: Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, 1961

Synopsis

Parzival, an Arthurian romance completed by Wolfram von Eschenbach in the first years of the thirteenth century, is one of the foremost works of German literature and a classic that can stand with the great masterpieces of the world. The most important aspects of human existence, worldly and spiritual, are presented in strikingly modern terms against the panorama of battles and tournaments and Parzival's long search for the Grail. The world of knighthood, of love and loyalty and human endeavor despite the cruelty and suffering of life, is constantly mingling with the world of the Grail, affirming the inherent unity between man's temporal condition and his quest for something beyond human existence.

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About the Author

Wolfram von Eschenbach was the greatest of the medieval German narrative poets. Very little is known about his life, but it is generally accepted that he belonged to a Bavarian family of the lower nobility, that he may have served a Franconian lord, and that for the better part of his creative period he enjoyed the patronage of the great medieval German Maecenas Hermann I, landgrave of Thuringia. He probably died between 1220 and 1230.

From the Back Cover

An Arthurian romance completed by Wolfran von Eschenbach in the first of the thirteenth century.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vintage Books, A Division of Random House
• Publication date: 1961
• ISBN 10: 0394701887
• ISBN 13: 9780394701882
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 512