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The Divine Comedy

Af: Clive James, Dante Alighieri Engelsk Paperback

The Divine Comedy

Af: Clive James, Dante Alighieri Engelsk Paperback
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‘Finally I realised that I had been practising for this job every time I wrote a quatrain . . . I had spent all this time – the greater part of a lifetime – preparing my instruments.’

The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James’s vivid translation – his life’s work and decades in the making – presents Dante’s entire epic poem in a single song.

While many poets and translators have attempted to capture the full glory of The Divine Comedy in English, many have fallen short. Victorian verse translations established an unfortunate tradition of reproducing the sprightly rhyming measures of Dante but at the same time betraying the strain on the translator’s powers of invention. For Dante, the dramatic human stories of Hell were exciting, but the spiritual studies of Purgatory and the sublime panoramas of Heaven were no less so.

In this incantatory translation, James – defying the convention by writing in quatrains – tackles these problems head-on and creates a striking and hugely accessible translation that gives us The Divine Comedy as a whole, unified, and dramatic work.

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‘Finally I realised that I had been practising for this job every time I wrote a quatrain . . . I had spent all this time – the greater part of a lifetime – preparing my instruments.’

The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James’s vivid translation – his life’s work and decades in the making – presents Dante’s entire epic poem in a single song.

While many poets and translators have attempted to capture the full glory of The Divine Comedy in English, many have fallen short. Victorian verse translations established an unfortunate tradition of reproducing the sprightly rhyming measures of Dante but at the same time betraying the strain on the translator’s powers of invention. For Dante, the dramatic human stories of Hell were exciting, but the spiritual studies of Purgatory and the sublime panoramas of Heaven were no less so.

In this incantatory translation, James – defying the convention by writing in quatrains – tackles these problems head-on and creates a striking and hugely accessible translation that gives us The Divine Comedy as a whole, unified, and dramatic work.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 560
ISBN-13: 9781447244226
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1447244222
Udg. Dato: 4 jun 2015
Længde: 36mm
Bredde: 133mm
Højde: 197mm
Forlag: Pan Macmillan
Oplagsdato: 4 jun 2015
Forfatter(e): Clive James, Dante Alighieri
Forfatter(e) Clive James, Dante Alighieri


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ISBN-13 9781447244226


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 560


Udgave


Længde 36mm


Bredde 133mm


Højde 197mm


Udg. Dato 4 jun 2015


Oplagsdato 4 jun 2015


Forlag Pan Macmillan

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