Le Chevalier de la charrette

(Lancelot)

by Chretien de Troyes and edited by Alfred Foulet, Karl D. Uitti, preface by Daniel Poirion

Book cover: Le Chevalier de la charrette

Extent: 469 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Literary Studies, Medieval Studies

Series: Textes litteraires du Moyen Age

Series volume number: 8

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(June 2010)

ISBN: 9782812401435

8.62 x 5.91 inches

Price: $33.00

Out of stock

Hardback (Published)

(January 2024)

ISBN: 9782406164876

8.62 x 5.91 inches

Price: $98.00

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Le Chevalier de la charrette is a novel with links to the future. The motif of the quest that Chretien de Troyes uses here for the first time would form the central thread of the great novelistic cycles of the following centuries. Le Chevalier de la charrette also establishes the portrait of the perfect courtly lover, faithfully obedient to his lady to the point of humiliation, a relationship that appears to imitate both that of the vassal to his suzerain and the mystic to his god. Le Chevalier de la charrette is a novel of infinite literary possibilities.

  • By (author) Chretien de Troyes
  • Preface by Daniel Poirion
  • Edited by Alfred Foulet
  • Edited by Karl D Uitti