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Because of past frustrations and disappointments

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Cliges Condition:Well Read and grindstones to transform rawIn this extraordinarily fine translation of Cligs, the second of five surviving Arthurian poems by twelfth century French poet Chrtien de Troyes, Burton Raffel captures the liveliness, innovative spirit, and subtle intentions of the original work. In this poem, Chrtien creates his most artful plot and paints the most starkly medieval portraits of any of his romances. The world he describes has few of the safeguards and protections of civilization: