{"product_id":"dantes-inferno-a-graphic-novel-adaptation","title":"Dante's Inferno: A Graphic Novel Adaptation","description":"\u003cb\u003eAcclaimed animators Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi adapt Dante's literary classic \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e in the sweeping, dramatic style that brought \u003ci\u003eThe Hunchback of Notre Dame\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFantasia 2000\u003c\/i\u003e to life\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Literary aficionados will appreciate this decadent graphic novel adaptation, which does not seek to sand down the source material. Likewise, adults whose imaginations were fueled by films like Disney's \u003ci\u003eHunchback of Notre Dame\u003c\/i\u003e as children, which the Brizzi brothers animated sequences for, will be swept up in this lushly illustrated adult fable, unfettered by the demands of corporate animation studios. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi make this famously dense literary classic accessible without distorting it and betraying the spirit of the Italian genius. They deftly translate it into comics while taking care to preserve the heart of the story: a taste for excess, dramatic tension, and the inevitable darkness of the subject matter. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante crosses the nine circles of Hell to find his beloved, Beatrice, in Paradise. Along the way, he must recognize and reject each of the incarnations of sin. In each circle of Hell, Dante confronts both sinners and demons, from Cleopatra, Helen of Troy, Achilles, and Paris, whose loves were famously their downfall, to the Greek Furies and Medusa, to heretics like Epicurus, whose teachings claimed that the soul died with the body, now forced to writhe in a flaming tomb for eternity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Each layer of Hell reveals monsters, gods, historical and mythological kings, philosophers, queens, and hordes of the miserable, faceless damned, all culminating in a confrontation with Lucifer himself.","brand":"Gaëtan Brizzi, Dante Alighieri, Paul Brizzi","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46333594697964,"sku":"9781419776755","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781419776755.jpg?v=1743596616","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/dantes-inferno-a-graphic-novel-adaptation","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}