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Chretien de Troyes, The Story of the Grail (Li Contes del Graal), or Perceval, ed. Rupert 'Γ. Pickens, trans. William W. Kibler, Garland Library of Medieval Literature, A 62 (New York and London: Garland, 1990). 1 + 514 pp.; 5 plates. ISBN 0-82-404199-8· S70.00. The short introduction provides useful background information to this fascinating text and draws attention to its richness and complexity and to the impossibility of explaining away its mysteries or finding easy answers to the problems which it poses. The...