Description
Welcome to hell. On Good Friday evening in the year 1300, Dante finds himself lost in a dark and menacing wood.
The ghost of Virgil offers to lead him to safety but the path lies through the terrifying kingdom of Satan.
On his journey deep into the underworld, Dante crosses paths with both old acquaintances and famous characters from history as he witnesses the strange and gruesome sufferings of the damned.
Written while Dante was in exile and under threat of being burned at the stake, this dramatic, frightening and, at times, sardonically humorous vision of hell still has the power to shock and horrify.
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- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240 pages
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date: 02/08/2007
- Category: Poetry by individual poets
- ISBN: 9780099511977
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Review by Banoo
'Here any doubts must be dropped,any cowardice has to die now.We've arrived where I told you,where you'd see spirits in agony,losers of the intelligence's good.'My second excursion into hell this year (my first was by way of Yasutaka Tsutsui). I never realized there were so many Italians and Greeks in that place. This book is kind of a Who's Who of Hell. If I ever find myself lost in a forest (which happens frequently) and Virgil appears and offers to guide me out, I think I'll pass. Virgil takes the long way out, the long and inconvenient way. Virgil is a crazy man... and he's dead. One should never follow Virgil. I hope you understand my repetition and insistence on this matter. Avoid Virgil if you get lost.Canto 21 was probably one of my favorites. I like the idea of being on a bridge over bubbling hot tar filled with screaming souls that surface like dolphins while having monsters chase me. Yet another reason to avoid Virgil. You shouldn't need to take this path to get out of a forest. It's just not right. Screw what Beatrice has to say about all this. Better still... stay out of forests.
