Dante's inferno : a graphic novel adaptation / Paul & Ga͡tan Brizzi ; translator, Montana Kane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brizzi, Paul, author, illustrator.

Contributor:

Brizzi, Gaëtan, illustrator, adapter, author.

Kane, Montana, translator.

Standardized Title:

L'enfer de Dante. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Hell--Comic books, strips, etc.

Hell.

Comic books, strips, etc--France--Translations into English.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Genre:

Religious comics.

Comics adaptations.

Graphic novels.

Comics (Graphic works)

Physical Description:

vii, 151 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Abrams Comicarts, 2024.

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

"Literary aficionados will appreciate this decadent graphic novel adaptation, which does not seek to sand down the source material. Likewise, adults whose imaginations were fueled by films like Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame as children, which the Brizzi brothers animated sequences for, will be swept up in this lushly illustrated adult fable, unfettered by the demands of corporate animation studios. Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante crosses the nine circles of Hell to find his beloved, Beatrice, in Paradise. Along the way, he must recognize and reject each of the incarnations of sin. In each circle of Hell, Dante confronts both sinners and demons, from Cleopatra, Helen of Troy, Achilles, and Paris, whose loves were famously their downfall, to the Greek Furies and Medusa, to heretics like Epicurus, whose teachings claimed that the soul died with the body, now forced to writhe in a flaming tomb for eternity. Each layer of Hell reveals monsters, gods, historical and mythological kings, philosophers, queens, and hordes of the miserable, faceless damned, all culminating in a confrontation with Lucifer himself. Paul and Ga͡tan Brizzi make this famously dense literary classic accessible without distorting it and betraying the spirit of the Italian genius. They deftly translate it into comics while taking care to preserve the heart of the story: a taste for excess, dramatic tension, and the inevitable darkness of the subject matter."--Amazon.com.

Notes:

"Originally published in 2023 in French as L'Enfer de Dante by Éditions Daniel Maghen." -- Colophon

Contains:

graphic adaptation of: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Inferno.

ISBN:

9781419776755

1419776754

OCLC:

1472150547