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Dante's Divine Trilogy Part One. Decorated and Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray
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2018
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Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-78689-253-9 (ISBN)
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-78689-253-9 (ISBN)
Part one of Alasdair Gray's remarkable interpretation of Dante's La Divina Commedia
One of the masterpieces of world literature, completed in 1320, Dante's La Divina Commedia describes his journey through Hell, Purgatory and his eventual arrival in Heaven. In this new version of Dante's masterpiece, Alasdair Gray offers an original translation in prosaic English rhyme.
Accessible, modern and sublimely decorated, this remarkable edition told in three parts yokes two great literary minds, seven hundred years apart, and brings the classic text alive for the twenty-first century.
One of the masterpieces of world literature, completed in 1320, Dante's La Divina Commedia describes his journey through Hell, Purgatory and his eventual arrival in Heaven. In this new version of Dante's masterpiece, Alasdair Gray offers an original translation in prosaic English rhyme.
Accessible, modern and sublimely decorated, this remarkable edition told in three parts yokes two great literary minds, seven hundred years apart, and brings the classic text alive for the twenty-first century.
Born in 1934, Alasdair Gray graduated in design and mural painting from the Glasgow School of Art. Since 1981, when Lanark was published by Canongate, he authored, designed and illustrated seven novels, several books of short stories, a collection of his stage, radio and TV plays and a book of his visual art, A Life in Pictures. In November 2019, he received a Lifetime Achievement award from the Saltire Society. He died in December 2019, aged eighty-five.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.10.2018 |
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| Zusatzinfo | line illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 144 x 240 mm |
| Gewicht | 292 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker |
| Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78689-253-7 / 1786892537 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78689-253-9 / 9781786892539 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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