by Henri Benoit, Benoît de Sainte-More · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253066651
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«Le Roman de Troie» is the medieval novel by Benoît de Sainte-Maure, published by Le Livre de poche in paperback (669 pages, in French).
Written around 1160-1170, it adapts into medieval French the chronicles held to be true of the Trojan War. Benoît de Sainte-Maure interweaves the martial matter with impossible loves: Jason and Medea, Paris and Helen, Troilus and Briseida, Achilles and Polyxena. The city appears as a splendid civilization, origin of the peoples of the West.
This edition, published in 1998, belongs to the Lettres gothiques collection and includes extracts from the Milan manuscript, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, D 55.
Suitable for readers interested in medieval French literature, the matter of Troy and the reinterpretation of classics in Romance language.
