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

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

Dante Alighieri, Alisdair Gray (Translator)
$26.00
Publication Date: November 5th, 2019
Publisher:
Canongate Books
ISBN:
9781786894731
Pages:
160

Description

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 version of Dante's epic, Alasdair Gray offers an original translation in his own unique idiom. Lyrical, modern and illuminatingly illustrated, this remarkable edition yokes two great literary minds, seven hundred years apart, and brings the classic text alive for the twenty-first century.

About the Author

Born in 1934, Alasdair Gray graduated in design and mural painting from Glasgow School of Art, Scotland. Since 1981, when Lanark was published by Canongate, he has written, 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 his own words, "Alasdair Gray is a fat, spectacled, balding, old Glaswegian pedestrian who has mainly lived by writing and designing books, most of them fiction."