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The Little Sublime Comedy (Paperback)
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The Little Sublime Comedy (Paperback)
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List price R386
Loot Price R359
Discovery Miles 3 590
You Save R27 (7%)
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In The Little Sublime Comedy John Gallas reanimates one of the
great works of world literature for the twenty-first century.
Relocated from medieval Italy to modern-day New Zealand, Dante's
Divine Comedy is given a new lease of life in Gallas's darkly
funny, surreal adaptation. Discovered snoozing on a mountainside
above Lake Rotoiti, Mr Gallas - our millennial Dante - is taken
under the wing by his Horatian guide, one Samuel Beckett. Over the
course of 147 `songs' we accompany the pair on their journey
through the Bad Place, the Better Place and the Good Place, and
witness the horrors and delights that befall the dead. On our way
we encounter a skiing Pohutukawa Tree, a Golden Kiwi, Lineout the
dog, a Vegetable Ewe, souls falling off things, Philosophy, and
lots of bright, coloured lights. Divine order is replaced by modern
Physics, by Klein bottles, super-speeds and black holes. Gallas's
Comedy is a metaphysical plunge through torment and triumph, as
subtly satirical as it is unsubtly silly.
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