5/27/2023 0 Comments Dante inferno book![]() ![]() Hunt Ermerson's take is far more grotesque and perhaps all the enjoyable for it. Accompanied by an intelligent essay guide to the original text and themes (by Kevin Jackson) that gently ticks off illustrator/author Hunt Emerson for his modern foibles - the drawn curvaceousness of the dead Beatrice, complete with gratuitous "PWOOAR" - the book as whole acts as both a wonderful primer for Dante novices and an entertaining revisioning of the most famous part of Dante's Divine Comedy.Of course, it is only a couple of years ago that Seymour Chwast's Dante's Divine Comedy" came out in English. ![]() The symbolism is hilariously banged over our heads the religious themes are articulated with fire and torture (how apt for hell). You really get the sense of satire - unsubtle, political - with which Dante was infusing his text. ![]() This new graphic novel version of Dante's Inferno is ribald, gross, and often horrifying. ![]()
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