A fabulous and original retelling of Dante's epic journey for the 21st century reader.
'Inferno', the first volume of Dante Alighieri's 'La Divina Commedia', is an imaginative tour de force. In this, one of the greatest of all works of literature, Dante's literary 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 version is suffused with wit and anger and irreverent vigour. Its rhymes sparkle and stimulate. Carson's swift intelligence never diminishes the pathos of the original however, and Dante's pity for some of the damned shines through undimmed.
The first ever version of Dante by an Irish poet, Carson's 'Inferno' is accented with a vivid Hiberno-English idiom that will surprise and renew the reader's faith in the art of translation.
