Inferno - Softcover

Dante Alighieri

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1631491075 ISBN 13: 9781631491078

Verlag: Liveright Pub Corp, 2015

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The freedoms James takes allow him to get off some beautiful phrases...James is a poet, doing a poet's work...[He] is also a premier practitioner of the high-low style that became so popular in the nineteen-twenties, notably via Eliot and Pound, which is to say, in part, via Dante.--Joan Acocella

Seeking to preserve Dante's 'infinitely variable rhythmic pulse, ' James makes an inspired metrical choice...The greatest virtue of James's translation is his gift for infusing poetry in the least likely places...James's austere volume achieves something remarkable: It lets Dante's poetry shine in all its brilliance.--Joseph Luzzi

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Of the three sections of Dante ’s Divine Comedy, the first section, Inferno, has always been the most popular. The medieval equivalent of a thriller, Inferno features Dante and his faithful guide Virgil as they traverse the complex geography of Hell and confront many hair-raising threats before reaching the deep chamber where Satan resides. Now, in this dazzling translation, described as “a remarkable achievment” by Stephen Greenblatt, Clive James communicates not just the transcendent poetry of Dante’s language but also the excitement and terror of his journey through the underworld. Instead of Dante’s original terza rima, a form that, in English, tends to show the strain of composition, James employs fluently linked quatrains, thereby conveying the seamless flow of Dante ’s poetry and the headlong momentum of the action. As James writes in his introduction, Dante’s great poem “can still astonish us, whether we believe in the supernatural or not. At the very least it will make us believe in poetry.”

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• Verlag: Liveright Pub Corp
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1631491075
• ISBN 13: 9781631491078
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 187