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Dantes Inferno in Modern English by Dante Alighieri, Douglas Neff

6 reviews

megb64's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gore, Grief, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Death, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Islamophobia

issyd23's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

The OG bible fanfic full of Dante’s fanboying and self-inserts 4⭐️
Also the translator Mark Musa did a great job keeping the tone and plot in this version 5⭐️ for the translator!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia, Death, Antisemitism, Fire/Fire injury, Religious bigotry, Gore, Physical abuse, Murder, Violence, Torture, Suicide, and Excrement

counciloffrogs's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Dante’s writing is truly fascinating to me, but readers be warned that Inferno is densely packed with allusion. Not only biblical, or even just greek mythos-based, but 14th century Italians politics, popes and other real-world religious figures, and at points personal acquaintances of Dante. I would not recommend delving into this work without prior background studies. 
However, I do find it incredibly interesting the unique approach of analyzing real people in the context of their damnment to explain possible machinations of Hell. I enjoyed Inferno, even as a practicing pagan, which isn’t something I expected to be able to say about this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Suicide, Murder, Genocide, Religious bigotry, and Incest

lin3han's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective medium-paced

4.5

I see a lot of comments talking about Dante roasting most of Florence. Just wanted to add that he’s doing so because he was exiled and this was a method of revenge and slander. It’s supposed to be tongue in cheek which Pinsky translated beautifully! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Rape, Child death, Murder, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Excrement, Sexual assault, Abortion, Body horror, Cannibalism, Addiction, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

hellssecretary's review against another edition

challenging dark informative mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

reading this as translated version and i cant help but wonder how actually it is in the original italian version

dante's writing style factually fractures between giving too long not-so-important explantations and comparisons that can piss you off as you read it, and then not explaining important points and people even a bit, as if he thinks everyone already knows all of the secrets of every rich/important italian men had. jesus.

constant mentions of roman gods and legends and talks about them sometimes got me fully overthinking this entire book, mainly because while being based around God it casual mentions pagan gods, like this was all some multiverse and both God and those gods parallely had contolled the earth. like?! basis of the book is God, but yet all those roman god are mentioned, and aint the point of christianity - one god and no others?🤨
i aint christian enough to waste my sleep over it but damn that confused me

there many things that made no sense and were just outright weird and uncalled for and there were so many that i thought would be more complicated and explained better but were fully watered down, either by poem's boring style or translation (probably both)

would i have picked it up if it weren't for writing exam im having in three hours? probs no.
right now it seems really overwhelming and underwhelming at the same time.

i did like it more than most of books i read for school tho

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Blood, Gore, Body horror, Torture, Violence, Cannibalism, and Fire/Fire injury

ililly2003's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and Body horror