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The Little Sublime Comedy
John Gallas
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Description for The Little Sublime Comedy
Paperback. A 21st Century, En Zed Dante, of Ghastly and Glorious proportions. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
In The Little Sublime Comedy John Gallas reanimates one of the great works of world literature for the twenty-first century. Relocated from medieval Italy to modern-day New Zealand, Dante's Divine Comedy is given a new lease of life in Gallas's darkly funny, surreal adaptation. Discovered snoozing on a mountainside above Lake Rotoiti, Mr Gallas - our millennial Dante - is taken under the wing by his Horatian guide, one Samuel Beckett. Over the course of 147 `songs' we accompany the pair on their journey through the Bad Place, the Better Place and the Good Place, and ... Read more
In The Little Sublime Comedy John Gallas reanimates one of the great works of world literature for the twenty-first century. Relocated from medieval Italy to modern-day New Zealand, Dante's Divine Comedy is given a new lease of life in Gallas's darkly funny, surreal adaptation. Discovered snoozing on a mountainside above Lake Rotoiti, Mr Gallas - our millennial Dante - is taken under the wing by his Horatian guide, one Samuel Beckett. Over the course of 147 `songs' we accompany the pair on their journey through the Bad Place, the Better Place and the Good Place, and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784104740
SKU
V9781784104740
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-26
About John Gallas
John Gallas was born in New Zealand in 1950. He came to England in the 1970s to study Old Icelandic at Oxford and has since lived and worked in York, Liverpool, Upholland, Little Ness, Rothwell, Bursa, Leicester, Diyarbakir, Coalville and Markfield, as a bottlewasher, archaeologist, and teacher. His books are published by Cold Hub Press (nz) and Agraphia (Sweden), and ... Read more
Reviews for The Little Sublime Comedy
'An enticing and timely collection of translations' - The Guardian on '52 Euros'; `One of the UK's most fascinating poets ... hilarious' - Yorkmix; 'The greatest New Zealand poet no one has ever heard of.' - Spinoff