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Julia Guez

TRANSLATION
Inferno
by Julia Guez
NOV 2011 | Books
Hundreds of translators have sought to render the Divine Comedy with relevance, force, and verve. Its no easy task, but with a new translation of Dantes Inferno, this is exactly what Mary Jo Bang aims to do. From all I have seen, Bangs version is unlike anything that has come before.
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