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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 851.1 EAN: 9780811842136 ISBN: 0811842134 Label: Chronicle Books Manufacturer: Chronicle Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 218 Publication Date: 2004-04 Publisher: Chronicle Books Studio: Chronicle Books Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: A faithful yet totally original contemporary spin on a classic, Dante's Inferno as interpreted by acclaimed artist Sandow Birk and writer Marcus Sanders is a journey through a Hell that bears an eerie semblance to our own world. Birk, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as one of "realism's edgier, more visionary painters," offers extraordinarily nuanced and vivid illustrations inspired by Gustave Dore's famous engravings. This modern interpretation depicts an infernal landscape infested with mini-malls, fast food restaurants, ATMs, and other urban fixtures, and a text that cleverly incorporates urban slang and references to modern events and people (as Dante did in his own time). Previously published in a deluxe, fine-press edition to wide praise, and accompanied by national exhibitions, this striking paperback edition of Dante's Inferno is a genuinely provocative and insightful adaptation for a new generation of readers. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Readable, Reliable, RivetingMost translations of Dante sound like they're stuttering through the poem rather than rendering it into understandable English. But this one's different. It's readable. I mean the guy wrote it so it sounds like your neighbor talking, clear as a bell, no antiquated language. It's as easy to understand as the "No Fear Shakespeare" translations. Plus it adds some contemporary references to make up for all those old-fashioned outdated allusions Dante stuffed into the Divine Comedy. I'm a Dante aficionado ... Read More Rating:  - It's not the original, but it still works on some level.I remember reading "Inferno" for the first time. I was avidly turning pages and I continued through into the heavens (which it got a little dull after purgatory). Inferno is a great book, and I would recommend it highly. With this adaptation, I have to admit, I was smitten with the cynical artwork of this book and it's move into modern life. The actual writing was a little harder to swallow. It's kind of like someone took a really amazing story and decided to do a remake that didn't quite ... Read More Rating: - Excellent shapeThe book is of brand new condition as advertized...content of book is mystical very good reading... Rating: - Medieval vision of the afterlifeThis was required reading for a graduate course in medieval history. Dante Alighieri's (1265-1321) "Devine Comedy" weaved together aspects of biblical and classical Greek literary traditions to produce one of the most important works of not only medieval literature, but also one of the great literary works of Western civilization. The full impact of this 14,000-line poem divided into 100 cantos and three books is not just literary. Dante's autobiographical poem Commedia, as he titled it, was his ... Read More Rating: - Dante's Inferno by Sandow BonkIt is an up-dated version; but as far as I can tell it has kept the 'feel" of the origional 
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