Dante's Divine comedy
(2010)
By:
Chwast, Seymour
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
GN/FICTION/DANTE ALIGHIERI
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Bloomsbury, [2010]
©2010
©2010
EDITION
First U.S. edition
DESCRIPTION
127 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 29 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781608190843 (hbk.), 1608190846 (hbk.), 9781608190843, 1608190846, 1608190846 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
In this Seymour Chwast's version of Dante Alighieri's epic poem, Dante and his guide Virgil don fedoras and wander through noirish realms of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. Along the way they catalog a multitude of sinners and saints--many of them real people to whom Dante tellingly assigned either horrible punishment or indescribable pleasure--and meet both God and Lucifer face-to-face. Chwast creates a visual fantasia that fascinates on every page. His inventive illustrations capture the delirious complexity of this classic of the western canon