The System of Dante's Hell (AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series)
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Title: The System of Dante's Hell (AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series)
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 160
Release Date: 2016-02-16
Details: A reissue of a 1965 novel, a remarkable narrative of childhood and youth, spiraling out of Dante's Inferno.
"Much of the novel is an expression of the intellectual and moral lost motion of the age . . . the special agony of the American Negro." -New York Times Book Review
"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. . . . Other writers addressed race more directly, but for all its linguistic slipperiness, Baraka's language conveys the feelings of fear, violation, and fury with a surprising potency. A pungent and lyrical portrait of mid-'60s black protest." -Kirkus Reviews
With a new introduction by Woodie King Jr.
This 1965 novel is a remarkable narrative of childhood and youth, structured on the themes of Dante's Inferno: violence, incontinence, fraud, 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.
EAN: 9781617753961
Package Dimensions: Height: 7 Inches, Length: 5 Inches, Weight: 0.29321480846 Pounds, Width: 0.25 Inches
Languages: en
