Post details: Dante's Inferno: text by Sandow Birk and Marcus Sanders
Dante's Inferno: text by Sandow Birk and Marcus Sanders
My beloved daughter blessed her father with a gift of Dante's Virgil-guided tour though the depths of hell for Christmas. This illustrated and modern, Message-like, translation of the Inferno trilled my soul. As a matter of fact Birk and Sanders's ability to turn a phrase had me laughing at the most inopportune times. Hell's highways suffer from interminable traffic jams but then the fast food restaurants abound offering an attractive array of artery clogging goodies. Dante's genius avails only when the christian reader understands that the hell therein described refers not to the lost but the hypocrite-Jesus would certainly agree.
I can hardly wait to purchase and read the succeeding Purgatorio and Paradesio.
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1) That's an amazing xmas present
2) Florrie and I spent a lot of time looking at an illustrated version that we talked about buying (when we've got the $$). It's Dante's text juxtaposed to Medieval etchings. It was a giant book, we wanted it to put on the coffee table.
3) I did not realize that Dante's commentary was against Christendom until about 20 minutes ago when I was reading about the anti-empirical strain of Christian theology manifested in subversive art.
None of that really applies to the content of your post, but it's loosely connected.
2) Florrie and I spent a lot of time looking at an illustrated version that we talked about buying (when we've got the $$). It's Dante's text juxtaposed to Medieval etchings. It was a giant book, we wanted it to put on the coffee table.
3) I did not realize that Dante's commentary was against Christendom until about 20 minutes ago when I was reading about the anti-empirical strain of Christian theology manifested in subversive art.
None of that really applies to the content of your post, but it's loosely connected.
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01/05/09 @ 18:30
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I loved the Birk-Sanders adaptations too. The images are interesting and beautiful and thought provoking, and the prose style makes the poem accessible. (I also thought that their "Paradiso" was the best of the three.)
If you liked the books you'll be happy to know that they made of movie out of their "Inferno". Its not the same as the book, but its the same guys working on it and its really good. I think you can see it online or get it online. Check out the trailer at least:
www.dantefilm.com
If you liked the books you'll be happy to know that they made of movie out of their "Inferno". Its not the same as the book, but its the same guys working on it and its really good. I think you can see it online or get it online. Check out the trailer at least:
www.dantefilm.com
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This is provocative: http://vimeo.com/3089746
how's purgatory these days? Any closer to heaven?
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