Your Daily Penguin: Chretien de Troyes!

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[victorreis]

For those here who can read in French: there's a collection called Lettres Gothiques in which each book has it's "original" or manuscript spelling and organisation on the left pages and it's modern French translation on the right pages. The quality is very high and each book has commentaries in an introduction chapter before the story. I strongly recommend them. :)

[thefrancophilereader]

You beat me to it! You've beat me to introducing booktube to Chrétien de Troyes. *shakes fist We should totally do a read-along of his chevalric romances. Booktube would find them a hoot. Everyone needs to know that the Arthurian romances were first written in French, and that Chrétien de Troyes wrote the original Grail legend.

[Tsfangjoker]

What good timing, I just started Lancelot Knight of the Cart.

[ramblingraconteur]

From that passage it sounds like de Troyes is chasing 1 Corinthians 13.

You don’t love all of these passages on love, within a Penguin Classic no less? Is it an endangered penguin species?

[paulzenev]

A little hard on Chretien. I was introduced to Chretien at college age. I read 3 of his works: Erec, Cliges, and Lancelot. I did not find what Mr Donoghue did!! I like Chretien. The prolixity might be a turn-off to some. Maybe people should try the verse translations. I read Ruth H Kline, which tries to approximate the rhyme. And Burton Raffel which is blank. I know prose translations as well. However, a large topic..!! Again, we are taught Chretien was OK!! TY

[carlinberg]

I was searching around the internet for information on Chretien de Troyes, and found your channel. Amazing videos, thank you! Do you *like* Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Artur?

[alf.]

Why do people still pronounce his last name as 'Troys, ' like the ancient Greek city? Is that pronunciation acceptable as well?