HELL: Dante's Divine Trilogy Part One. Decorated and Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray

by Alasdair Gray (Author), Dante Alighieri (Author), Dante Alighieri (Author), Alasdair Gray (Author), Dante Alighieri (Author)

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Illustrated
2018
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One of the masterpieces of world literature, completed in 1320, Dante's La Divina Commedia describes his journey through Hell, Purgatory and his eventual arrival in Heaven. In this new version of Dante's masterpiece, Alasdair Gray offers an original translation in prosaic English rhyme. Accessible, modern and sublimely decorated, this remarkable edition told in three parts yokes two great literary minds, seven hundred years apart, and brings the classic text alive for the twenty-first century.

Synopsis

One of the masterpieces of world literature, completed in 1320, Dante's La Divina Commedia describes his journey through Hell, Purgatory and his eventual arrival in Heaven. In this new version of Dante's masterpiece, Alasdair Gray offers an original translation in prosaic English rhyme. Accessible, modern and sublimely decorated, this remarkable edition told in three parts yokes two great literary minds, seven hundred years apart, and brings the classic text alive for the twenty-first century.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 144
Edition: Main
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 04 Oct 2018
ISBN 10: 1786892537
ISBN 13: 9781786892539

Media Reviews

A necessary genius -- ALI SMITH
The best Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott -- ANTHONY BURGESS
Gray is a true original, a twentieth century William Blake * * Observer * *
A great writer, perhaps the greatest writer living in Britain today -- WILL SELF
One of the most gifted writers to have put pen to paper in the English language -- IRVINE WELSH
Alasdair Gray is one of the most important living writers in English * * New York Times * *

Author Bio

Born in 1934, Alasdair Gray graduated in design and mural painting from Glasgow School of Art. Since 1981, when Lanark was published by Canongate, he has written, designed and illustrated seven novels, several books of short stories, a collection of his stage, radio and TV plays and a book of his visual art, A Life in Pictures. In his own words, 'Alasdair Gray is a fat, spectacled, balding, old Glaswegian pedestrian who has mainly lived by writing and designing books, most of them fiction.'