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Daniel POIRION, Anne BERTHELOT, Robert DESCHAUX, Irene FREIRE-NUNES, Gérard GROS et Philippe WALTER, Le livre du Graal I. Joseph d’Arimathie, Merlin, Les premiers faits du roi Arthur, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard, 2001
Résumé : Edition et traduction en français moderne. CR Trachsler in Romania 122 (2004), pp. 247-257 (nombreuses corrections) ; CR Gier in ZrPh 119, 2003, p. 168-71
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Laura CHUHAN CAMPBELL, The Medieval Merlin Tradition in France and Italy. Prophecy, Paradox, and Translatio, Gallica, 42, Woodbridge, Brewer, 2017
Résumé : The medieval figure of Merlin is intriguing, enigmatic, and riddled with contradictions. Half human, half devil, he possesses a supernatural knowledge that allows him to prophesy the future. This book examines the reinterpretation of Merlin's character in French and Italian Arthurian literature, in which chivalric romance and political prophecy become increasingly intertwined. As the Merlin story crosses the fluid cultural and linguistic boundaries between vernacular dialects on either side of the Alps, the protagonist accumulates histories, futures, and discourses from multiple texts within his omniscient knowledge. From his first appearance in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, through thirteenth-century French romance, to fifteenth-century Venice, Merlin is the voice of political and spiritual truths that originate beyond the sphere of human comprehension. The study also shows how the conversion of Merlin's prophetic speech from his omniscient mind into human languages parallels the work of the medieval translator. At the same time, the transmission of the Merlin story between vernacular French and Italian dialects presents an alternative model of translation, one that relies not on the displacement of previous texts, but instead on the accretion of information from text to text.
Recensions :
- I. Fabry-Tehranchi in Speculum 95 (2020), pp. 211-213
- N. Morato in Medium Aevum 88 (2019)
- Leah Tether in The Medieval Review 2018 (https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/25637/31397)
- F. Wolfzettel in Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 2019
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Aileen Ann MacDonald, « Merlin in the Vulgate and Post Vulgate. A study in contrasts » in Comparative studies in Merlin, from the Vedas to C.G. Jung, Lewiston Queenston Lampeter, Mellen, 1991 p. 3 - 20
Résumé : Cité dans Klapp 31, 1993, n° 2144 Mots-clés :Personnage merlin//Graal vulgate//Graal post-vulgate//
