Purgatory: Dante's Divine Trilogy Part Two; Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray

Alasdair Gray; Dante Alighieri

ISBN 10: 1786894734 / ISBN 13: 9781786894731

Edité par Canongate Books, 2019

A propos de cet article

First edition and printing of the Alasdair Gray translation. A nice copy with some light rubbing to the top edge of the jacket, and bottom fore corners bumped. An scarce title published shortly before the author's death in 2019. 12mo, white boards, pictorial jacket, 137 pages. Satisfaction guaranteed. Additional photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted, padded box.

N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1745035435994

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Purgatory: Dante's Divine Trilogy Part Two; Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray
• Éditeur: Canongate Books
• Date de parution: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1786894734
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781786894731
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Poetry
  • Translations

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Synopsis

In part two of La Divina Commedia, one of the masterpieces of world literature, Dante and his guide, the poet Virgil, must enter and traverse Purgatory and the seven deadly sins in their quest to reach Heaven. In this colloquial version of Dante's masterpiece, Alasdair Gray offers an original translation in his own unique idiom. Lyrical and modern, this remarkable edition yokes two great literary minds, seven hundred years apart, and brings the classic text alive for the twenty-first century.

À propos des auteurs

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 by the Saltire Society. He died in December 2019, aged eighty-five.

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was a major Italian poet of the Middle Ages and the author of the Divine Comedy.