The Inferno Of Dante Alighieri by Dante Alighieri
Inferno, the first volume of Dante's Divine Comedy, is an imaginitive tour de force. Dante's hero, Virgil, guides him through hell, showing him the inhabitants of each of its nine circles and examples of the divine justice meted out to them. Ciaran Carson's translation of the text is suffused with wit, anger and irreverent vigour and attempts not to diminish the pathos of the original. This is a retelling of Dante's epic journey for the twenty-first-century reader.
"Paul Muldoon, Irish Times Books of the Year 'Quite simply the best version of Dante there is' Ali Smith, Scotsman Books of the Year 'Carson's version..is the first I've ever read in which the English (because Irish really) ever seemed so kickingly alive'
Ciaran Carson was born in 1948 in Belfast where he still lives. He has been awarded the Irish Times Literature Prize, the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Yorkshire Post Prize and the Forward Prize for Poetry in 2003.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781862076037 |
| ISBN 10 | 1862076030 |
| Title | The Inferno Of Dante Alighieri |
| Author | Dante Alighieri |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Granta Books |
| Year published | 2004-11-16 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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