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Perceval

Perceval le Gallois · One of King Arthur's legendary Knights of the Round Table

Appears in 25 videos · 38 passages, 25 of them in depth.

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Dominique Pagani often returns to the Perceval of the Story of the Grail, especially to two scenes. The first is his silence at the Fisher King's castle: raised as a little savage by his mother, far from knighthood, Perceval stands dazed before the king's suffering and does not ask the question that would have healed him12. A hermit links this silence to the fault of having abandoned his mother, who died of grief when he left3. The second is his contemplation of three drops of blood on the snow, in which he sees his beloved's cheeks; he spends hours there and strikes down the knights who challenge him, until Gawain arrives4. In 2022, he makes Perceval a figure of the dialectic of hesitation and decision: the one who shoots without hesitating becomes "absolute hesitation," not even knowing his own name5, and he compares him with Siegfried. He also discusses Wagner's Parsifal, who kills the swan and only becomes clear when he speaks of his mother6, as well as the passage from sight to vision.

  1. 1#4.7 Angélique (by Nerval)12 Apr 2018 · 1:41:16
  2. 2Dialectics of hesitation and decision13 Nov 2022 · 21:12
  3. 3Dialectics of hesitation and decision13 Nov 2022 · 25:53
  4. 4Dialectics of hesitation and decision13 Nov 2022 · 1:00:49
  5. 5Hesitation fascinated by hearing and by sight: Siegfried and Perceval12 Dec 2022 · 52:54
  6. 6Saving the saviour? Redemption, the end of the cycle or its new beginning?21 Apr 2024 · 1:19:10

Summary produced automatically from 36 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.

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Perceval (, also written Percival, Parzival, Parsifal), alternatively called Peredur (Welsh pronunciation:), is a figure in the legend of King Arthur, often appearing as one of the Knights of the Round Table. First mentioned by the French author Chrétien de Troyes in the late 12th-century tale Perceval, the Story of the Grail, he is best known for being the original hero in the quest for the Grail before being replaced in later literature by Galahad, first introduced in the early 13th century.

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Cycle 11 · 13 Nov 2022Dialectics of hesitation and decision
  1. 21:12Raised in the forest far from chivalry, he leaves his mother, then remains mute before the Grail instead of asking the expected question.
  2. 25:53A hermit reveals to him that he is bound by the memory of his mother, who died of grief at his departure.
  3. 1:00:49Absorbed for hours by three drops of blood on the snow, he strikes down the knights who provoke him, until Gauvain comes to speak to him.

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