The Inferno

出版者:Barnes & Noble Classics

作者:Dante Alighieri

页数:352

出版时间:2005-01-06

价格:USD 7.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781593083311

具体描述

The Inferno , by Dante Alighieri , is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics : New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. The Inferno remains literature’s most hallowed and graphic vision of Hell. Dante plunges readers into this unforgettable world with a deceptively simple—and now legendary—tercet:

Midway upon the journey of our life

I found myself within a forest dark

For the straightforward pathway had been lost.

With these words, Dante plunges readers into the unforgettable world of the Inferno—one of the most graphic visions of Hell ever created. In this first part of the epic The Divine Comedy , Dante is led by the poet Virgil down into the nine circles of Hell, where he travels through nightmare landscapes of fetid cesspools, viper pits, frozen lakes, and boiling rivers of blood and witnesses sinners being beaten, burned, eaten, defecated upon, and torn to pieces by demons. Along the way he meets the most fascinating characters known to the classical and medieval world—the silver-tongued Ulysses, lustful Francesca da Rimini, the heretical Farinata degli Uberti, and scores of other intriguing and notorious figures.

This edition of the Inferno revives the famous Henry Wadsworth Longfellow translation, which first introduced Dante’s literary genius to a broad American audience. “opening the book we stand face to face with the poet,” wrote William Dean Howells of Longfellow’s Dante, “and when his voice ceases we may marvel if he has not sung to us in his own Tuscan.” Lyrically graceful and brimming with startlingly vivid images, Dante’s Inferno is a perpetually engrossing classic that ranks with the greatest works of Homer and Shakespeare.

Features a map of Hell and illustrations by Gustave Doré. Peter Bondanella is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian at Indiana University and a past president of the American Association for Italian Studies. His publications include a number of translations of Italian classics, books on Italian Renaissance literature and Italian cinema, and a dictionary of Italian literature.

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我发现，这本书最令人不安的地方，恰恰在于它对“现实”边界的模糊处理。它没有明确地告诉读者“这是梦境”或是“这是真实”，而是将两者交织在一起，形成一种持续的、低频的焦虑感。读者就像是站在一个布满哈哈镜的房间里，你看到的一切都是真实的，但所有影像都被扭曲变形，你无法确定自己所看到的哪个部分是支撑整个结构的基础。这种不确定性贯穿始终，它挑战了我们作为读者对“故事”的基本预期——即故事最终会提供一个清晰的落脚点或教训。然而，这本书拒绝提供廉价的安慰或简单的答案。它更像是一个开放式的哲学困境，将所有关于选择、后果与救赎的问题，原封不动地抛还给阅读者本人。读完后，我久久未能从那种悬浮感中抽离出来，不断地回顾那些模糊不清的场景，试图找出那个“真实”的切入点，却发现切入点本身就是不断移动的目标。

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