The System of Dante's Hell

The System of Dante's Hell
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Publisher : Akashic Books
Total Pages : 161
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ISBN-10 : 9781617754142
ISBN-13 : 1617754145
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Book Synopsis The System of Dante's Hell by : Amiri Baraka

Download or read book The System of Dante's Hell written by Amiri Baraka and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fevered and impressionistic riff on the struggles of blacks in the urban North and rural South, as told through the prism of The Inferno.” —Kirkus Reviews This 1965 novel is a remarkable narrative of childhood and youth, structured on the themes of Dante’s Inferno: violence, incontinence, fraud, and treachery. With a poet’s skill, Baraka creates the atmosphere of hell, and with dramatic power he reconstructs the brutality of the black slums of Newark, a small Southern town, and New York City. The episodes contained within the novel represent both states of mind and states of the soul—lyrical, fragmentary, and allusive. With an introduction by Woodie King Jr. “Much of the novel is an expression of the intellectual and moral lost motion of the age . . . the special agony of the American Negro.” —The New York Times Book Review “It’s a tortured nightmare, excruciatingly honest and alive, painful and beautiful . . .” —Michael Rumaker, author of A Day and a Night at the Baths


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