Dante's Paradiso
Editorial Reviews Review The completed Commedia is a masterwork, vulnerable in places to nitpicking but infinitely enriched by motifs that emerge only after contemplation of the full trilogy. One would no sooner own this Inferno without its two sequelae than eat breakfast but skip lunch and dinner. -San Francisco Chronicle Book Description With the publication of Dante's Paradiso, Sandow Birk and Marcus Sanders complete their literary and artistic achievement—the retelling of The Divine Comedy in contemporary words and images. Hailed as "inspired" by the The London Review of Books, Birk and Sanders's adaptation of Dante's classic work is true to the spirit of the original and is as acerbic and shockingly funny today as in thirteenth-century Italy. With a text that incorporates modern slang and references to anachronistically recent public figures, Birk and Sanders pay tribute to Dante's linguistic approach and clever politics. Birk's striking spin on Gustave Doré's famous engravings accompany the cantos. Together they lend the timeless poem a postmodern edge. A major retrospective of all of Birk's illustrations and paintings for the trilogy will be held at the San Jose Museum of Art in August 2005 in tribute to a masterpiece for our times. Dante's Paradiso
Dante's Paradiso,Marcus Sanders,Peter Hawkins,Mary Campbell,Michael Meister,Sandow Birk's,Sandow Birk,Chronicle Books LLC,0811847209,Continental European,General,Heaven,Photography,Poetry,Subjects & Themes - Religious,Fiction / Classics
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