Amiri Baraka

The System of Dante's Hell

A Novel

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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 introducti… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-61775-414-2
EAN: 9781617754142
Produktnummer: 31920119
Verlag: Akashic Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 162 S.
Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor

Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones (1934-2014) was the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He was named poet laureate of New Jersey by the New Jersey Commission for the Humanities, from 2002-2004. His short story collection Tales of the Out & the Gone (Akashic Books) was a New York Times Editors' Choice and won a 2008 PEN/Beyond Margins Award. He is also the author of Home: Social Essays, Black Music, and Tales, among other works.