The System Of Dante's Hell, originally published in 1965, is a remarkable narrative of childhood and youth, structured on the themes of Dante's Inferno: violence, incompetance, 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. The resultant work is lyrical, fragmentary and elusive.
| ISBN: | 9781617753961 |
| Publication date: | 25th February 2016 |
| Author: | Amiri Baraka |
| Publisher: | Akashic Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 160 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |