ABSTRACT
Some of the narrative material used in poem can be found in other texts on the Grail which will be considered in due course those attributed, rightly or wrongly, to Robert de Boron and Walter Map. It describes the magnificent death throes of the world of Arthurian legend, following the successful conclusion of the most noble of all conceivable quests, the quest for the Grail. Indeed, the episode entitled The Holy Grail published in 1869 drew freely on Malory's work, and therefore, through it, on the Queste Del Saint Graal. In Lohengrin, 1848, Wagner represents the castle of the Grail as the domain of eternal happiness and portrays it as being in another, inaccessible, world. It becomes less important, from the poetical standpoint, to identify the Grail and the objects that accompanied it and to discover its history and the theme of waiting that Gracq emphasizes most clearly in his Roi pecheur, as in most of his works.
