The Inferno of Dante Alighieri (New York Review Books Classics)

Book Info


enlarge picture	*The Inferno of Dante Alighieri (New York Review Books Classics)*
	Author:	Ciaran Carson (Translator)
	ISBN:	1590171144
	Format:	Handover
	Publish Date:	June, 2005




Book Review


*Book Description* This is a truly original retelling of Dante's epic journey that will surprise and renew the 21st-century reader's faith in the art of translation. Remarkably inventive, Ciaran Carson's Inferno deserves comparison with Seamus Heaney's Beowulf and Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid. The Inferno of Dante Alighieri (New York Review Books Classics) FROM THE PUBLISHER This is a truly original retelling of Dante's epic journey that will surprise and renew the 21st-century reader's faith in the art of translation. Remarkably inventive, Ciaran Carson's Inferno deserves comparison with Seamus Heaney's Beowulf and Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid.