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Lancelot du Lac
Lancelot du Lac II
LANCELOT DU LAC - tome II
Ce volume contient la suite du roman en prose du xiiie siècle Lancelot du Lac jusqu'à l'épisode de la fausse Guenièvre (fin du ms Paris Bibl. Nat. fr. 768). On retrouvera ici les amours de Lancelot, qui obtient les ultimes faveurs de Guenièvre, et ses aventures entrelacées avec celles de nombreux autres personnages. La fille du roi de Norgales désire plus que tout passer une nuit avec Gauvain. Elle y parvient malgré la surveillance de son père. Hélène-sans-pair est enfermée par son mari qui se prétend meilleur chevalier qu'elle n'est belle dame. Arthur succombe aux charmes de l'enchanteresse Gamille. Lancelot, atteint de folie furieuse, sera guéri par la dame du Lac avant de triompher des Saxons, ennemis du roi Arthur. Derrière ce foisonnement d'épisodes se dessine le sens de cette œuvre grandiose.
Texte traduit, présenté et annoté par Marie-Luce Chênerie, professeur honoraire à l'université de Toulouse - Le Mirail, d'après l'édition d'Elspeth Kennedy, professeur honoraire à l'université d'Oxford.
Ce volume contient la suite du roman en prose du xiiie siècle Lancelot du Lac jusqu'à l'épisode de la fausse Guenièvre (fin du ms Paris Bibl. Nat. fr. 768). On retrouvera ici les amours de Lancelot, qui obtient les ultimes faveurs de Guenièvre, et ses aventures entrelacées avec celles de nombreux autres personnages. La fille du roi de Norgales désire plus que tout passer une nuit avec Gauvain. Elle y parvient malgré la surveillance de son père. Hélène-sans-pair est enfermée par son mari qui se prétend meilleur chevalier qu'elle n'est belle dame. Arthur succombe aux charmes de l'enchanteresse Gamille. Lancelot, atteint de folie furieuse, sera guéri par la dame du Lac avant de triompher des Saxons, ennemis du roi Arthur. Derrière ce foisonnement d'épisodes se dessine le sens de cette œuvre grandiose.
Texte traduit, présenté et annoté par Marie-Luce Chênerie, professeur honoraire à l'université de Toulouse - Le Mirail, d'après l'édition d'Elspeth Kennedy, professeur honoraire à l'université d'Oxford.
698 pages, Pocket Book
First published January 1, 1225
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June 14, 2014
This is the second volume (so far five volumes have been published; the series remains unfinished) of a facing page Old French / Modern French edition of the medieval French Lancelot in prose. This volume (translation by Marie-Luce Chênerie) is of roughly the last third of the 13th century (c. 1220) BN fr 768 manuscript of the "noncyclic" prose Lancelot, one of the oldest extant editions of the prose Lancelot. The first two thirds of the same manuscript are published in volume I, Lancelot du Lac (translation by François Mosès).
The BN fr 768 manuscript is the same manuscript used by Elspeth Kennedy in her edition of Lancelot Du Lac: The Non-Cyclic Old French Prose Romance 2 Vols., on which this French edition is based. (Elspeth Kennedy's Lancelot of the Lake (trans. by Corin Corley; Oxford World's Classics) is an abridged version of the same work).
This prose Lancelot is termed "non-cyclic" (or "pre-cyclic": critics differ on whether this version is anterior to the cyclic version) because it doesn't link to the birth of Galahad (in this version the quest for the Grail is destined to be accomplished by Perceval), considers the adulterous relationship between Lancelot and Guenièvre by the ideals of courtly love, and stands apart from the "Lancelot-Grail" or "Vulgate" cycle manuscript tradition. That being said, the first two thirds of the manuscript (i.e. the material in Tome I) are identical to what is found in the "cyclic" versions of the prose Lancelot.
This volume continues the story from Tome I to the end of the manuscript. It begins with Galehaut and Lancelot traveling together to Sorelois (the distinction between the "pre-cyclic" and "cyclic" versions starts at this point); it features a variety of adventures of Hector (on a quest to find Gauvain) and Gauvain (on a quest to find Lancelot); the physical consummation of Lancelot and Guenièvre's love; war with the Saxons (and Arthur hostage of the enchantress Camille); the madness of Lancelot cured by the Lady of the Lake. It also contains a short version of the "False Guinevere" story and ends abruptly with Galehaut's death.
The following volume in the series, Lancelot Du Lac T03 La Fausse Guenievre, steps backwards and gives the more developed version of the "False Guinevere" story (using the BN fr. 752 manuscript, emended by consulting 8 other manuscripts) that appears in this volume pp. 583-675.
(French readers can also find a complete bilingual edition of the "short cyclic" prose Lancelot in volumes 2 - 3 of the three volume Pléiade edition of the Lancelot-Grail cycle (I: Le livre du Graal. Joseph d'Arimathie - Merlin - Les premiers faits du Roi Arthur, II: Le livre du Graal - Tome 2, and III: Le livre du Graal - Tome 3), edited by Daniel Poirion and based entirely on the Bonn UB 526 manuscript. Non-French speakers interested in the material can find the complete "long cyclic" and "post-vulgate" version of the Lancelot-Grail cycle edited by Norris J. Lacy, now in paperback; the prose Lancelot covers volumes 3 - 5 of that series (3: Lancelot, Parts I and II, 4: Lancelot, Parts III and IV, 5: Lancelot, Parts V and VI).
The BN fr 768 manuscript is the same manuscript used by Elspeth Kennedy in her edition of Lancelot Du Lac: The Non-Cyclic Old French Prose Romance 2 Vols., on which this French edition is based. (Elspeth Kennedy's Lancelot of the Lake (trans. by Corin Corley; Oxford World's Classics) is an abridged version of the same work).
This prose Lancelot is termed "non-cyclic" (or "pre-cyclic": critics differ on whether this version is anterior to the cyclic version) because it doesn't link to the birth of Galahad (in this version the quest for the Grail is destined to be accomplished by Perceval), considers the adulterous relationship between Lancelot and Guenièvre by the ideals of courtly love, and stands apart from the "Lancelot-Grail" or "Vulgate" cycle manuscript tradition. That being said, the first two thirds of the manuscript (i.e. the material in Tome I) are identical to what is found in the "cyclic" versions of the prose Lancelot.
This volume continues the story from Tome I to the end of the manuscript. It begins with Galehaut and Lancelot traveling together to Sorelois (the distinction between the "pre-cyclic" and "cyclic" versions starts at this point); it features a variety of adventures of Hector (on a quest to find Gauvain) and Gauvain (on a quest to find Lancelot); the physical consummation of Lancelot and Guenièvre's love; war with the Saxons (and Arthur hostage of the enchantress Camille); the madness of Lancelot cured by the Lady of the Lake. It also contains a short version of the "False Guinevere" story and ends abruptly with Galehaut's death.
The following volume in the series, Lancelot Du Lac T03 La Fausse Guenievre, steps backwards and gives the more developed version of the "False Guinevere" story (using the BN fr. 752 manuscript, emended by consulting 8 other manuscripts) that appears in this volume pp. 583-675.
(French readers can also find a complete bilingual edition of the "short cyclic" prose Lancelot in volumes 2 - 3 of the three volume Pléiade edition of the Lancelot-Grail cycle (I: Le livre du Graal. Joseph d'Arimathie - Merlin - Les premiers faits du Roi Arthur, II: Le livre du Graal - Tome 2, and III: Le livre du Graal - Tome 3), edited by Daniel Poirion and based entirely on the Bonn UB 526 manuscript. Non-French speakers interested in the material can find the complete "long cyclic" and "post-vulgate" version of the Lancelot-Grail cycle edited by Norris J. Lacy, now in paperback; the prose Lancelot covers volumes 3 - 5 of that series (3: Lancelot, Parts I and II, 4: Lancelot, Parts III and IV, 5: Lancelot, Parts V and VI).
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