Inferno of Dante Alighieri

by Ciaran Carson (Translator), Dante Alighieri (Author)

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2002
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Inferno , the first volume of Dante Alighieri's La Divina Comemedia , 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.

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Inferno , the first volume of Dante Alighieri's La Divina Comemedia , 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.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 17 Oct 2002
ISBN 10: 1862075255
ISBN 13: 9781862075252
Book Overview: Winner of the 2003 Weidenfeld Translation Prize

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ON SHAMROCK TEA: 'Ciaran Carson is the circus act of contemporary Irish letters - a double-jointed marvel who defies the narrow, classifying imagination' Guardian

Author Bio

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.