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Nordic Council Literature Prize ほくおうひょうぎかいぶんがくしょう

Edition 4 (1965)

Literature prizeInternational Literature PrizeNordic Literature

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Olof Lagercrantz おろふ・らーげるくらんつ Winner

A critical essay on Dante and The Divine Comedy that rereads the poem for modern readers. Moving from hell to paradise, it reconsiders the structure and meaning of the work in a contemporary frame.

It reads Dante not as a distant classic, but as a work that still feels alive today.

219 pages
DanteThe Divine Comedyliterary criticismnonfictionmodern interpretationItalian literature