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Review: The Inferno of Dante Alighieri: New-forged language fans the flames of an eternal masterpiece
From: Scotland on Sunday
Date: 20021208
Author:WN HERBERT
THE INFERNO OF DANTE ALIGHIERI
Translated by Ciaran Carson
Granta, 14.99 pounds
THIS translation is an achievement on many levels and a very occasional disappointment. Its strengths and weaknesses stem from the same cause: its driven, vivid and idiosyncratic language. Carson juggles the vigour of colloquialism with the poise of metre: at his best he fuses these into an utterly distinctive voice.
It is a voice which deploys the full heritage of Northern Irish English, the sonority of Gaelic and the pith of Scots, and remixes standard English according to its own template. The result is a ...
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