by Chrétien de Troyes · Madrid., Ed. Ediciones Siruela.Selección de lecturas medievales; Lemarchand Marie-José (ed.) · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788485876150
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«El caballero del león» is the Arthurian novel by Chrétien de Troyes, published by Ediciones Siruela in paperback (178 pages, in Spanish).
Yvain, a knight of King Arthur's court, is torn between the honor of battle and loyalty to his lady. Chrétien de Troyes combines tournaments and fights with motifs from Celtic mythology and Christian symbolism. The friendship with a lion gives the work its title and makes Yvain an emblem of the knight who protects the weak.
Collection Selección de Lecturas Medievales, no. 7, edited and translated by María José Lemarchand; first edition 1984. Part of the author's Arthurian romances.
For readers of medieval classics and the Arthurian cycle, and for those studying twelfth-century European literature.
Chrétien de Troyes was a French poet and trouvère known for his writing on Arthurian subjects such as Gawain, Lancelot, Perceval, and the Holy Grail. Chrétien's chivalric romances, including Erec and Enide, Lancelot, Perceval, and Yvain, represent some of the best-regarded works of medieval literature. His use of structure, particularly in Yvain, has been seen as a step toward the modern novel.
