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The Parzival of Wofram von Eschenbach, one of the world's greatest narrative poems, is the re-creation and completion of the story of the Holy Grail that was left unfinished by its initiator, Chretien de Troyes. Set against alternating backdrops of forbidding landscape and dazzling courtly ritual, Parzival's career, which culminates in the temple of the Grail, symbolizes chivalric life at its highest, in which the demands of God and of the world are brought together in a single ethico-religious principle.
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