《神曲》内容简介

　　但丁（DanteAlighieri，1265—1321），意大利最伟大的诗人，在西方文学史上，享有与荷马、莎士比亚齐名的美誉，他用了十多年时间完成的旷世杰作《神曲》代表了中世纪文学的最高成就。二〇二一年是但丁逝世七百周年。

　　《神曲》采用了中世纪流行的梦幻文学的形式，描写了一个幻游地狱、炼狱、天堂三界的故事。全诗三卷，分别为《地狱》、《炼狱》和《天堂》，每卷三十三篇，加上序共一百篇。诗人描述了他在一三〇〇年复活节前的凌晨，在一片黑暗的森林中迷了路，象征淫欲、强权和贪婪的豹、狮、狼拦住了去路。正在危急关头，古罗马诗人维吉尔出现了，他受但丁青年时期所爱恋的女子俾德丽采之托前来援助。维吉尔引导但丁游历了惩罚罪孽灵魂的地狱，穿越了收容悔过灵魂的炼狱，最后由俾德丽采引导他经过了构成天堂的九重天之后，终于到达了上帝面前。这时但丁大彻大悟，他的思想已与上帝的意念融洽无间，整篇诗到此戛然而止。但丁在游历地狱和炼狱时，遇到的不少灵魂生前都是历史上或当时的著名人物，诗篇的字里行间充满寓意，也具有很强的神学和宗教色彩。

　　朱维基先生的《神曲》译本是公认的经典诗体译本，之前在我社已出过多个版本，备受读者好评，现收入“译文版插图珍藏本世界文学名著”丛书出新版。法国十九世纪著名版画家多雷为《神曲》创作的插图流传最广，之前各版我们采用的也是多雷的插图，但我们此次“插图珍藏本”特意采用著名的达达主义大师、德裔美籍著名画家乔治•格罗茨（GeorgeGrosz，1893—1959）的插画作品。格罗茨应邀特为美国现代文库一九三二年版《神曲》创作了三十余幅插图，我们的“插图珍藏本”全部收入，专色精印，以期为读者提供一个理解和欣赏古典文学名著的新鲜的现代主义视角。本书创造性地采用竹板与天然麻布制作书壳，全书双色印刷，文图辉映，珠联璧合，极富赏鉴和收藏价值。

　　作者简介

　　但丁（DanteAlighieri，1265—1321），意大利最伟大的诗人，在西方文学史上，享有与荷马、莎士比亚齐名的美誉，他用了十多年时间完成的旷世杰作《神曲》代表了中世纪文学的最高成就。二〇二一年是但丁逝世七百周年。

　　乔治•格罗茨（GeorgeGrosz，1893—1959）达达主义大师、德裔美籍著名画家。其作品特别是讽刺画，对当时社会的腐败作了尖锐深刻的批判，因而被纳粹分子称为“头号文化布尔什维克”。……在象征性作品《德国，一个冬天的童话》（1919）以及系列画《你们看这个人》中描绘了当代社会的众生相。这一时期，他追随达达主义艺术思潮，称这一思潮是“有组织地利用狂癫来表达对破产的世界的蔑视”。第二次世界大战期间，用诸如《幸存者》（1944）这样一些充满强烈色彩的油画表达他的悲观主义情绪。（《不列颠百科全书》）

　　

Brief introduction of the Divine Comedy

DanteAlighieri (1265-1321), the greatest Italian poet, enjoys the same reputation as Homer and Shakespeare in the history of Western literature. His masterpiece "Divine Comedy", which took more than ten years to complete, represents the highest achievement of medieval literature. The year 2011 marks the 700th anniversary of Dante's death.

The Divine Comedy adopts the form of fantasy literature popular in the Middle Ages, describing a story of imaginary travel to the three realms of hell, purgatory and heaven. There are three volumes of the poem, namely "Hell", "Purgatory" and "Heaven", each volume of 33, plus the preface a total of 100. The poet describes how he lost his way in a dark forest in the early hours of Easter in the year 130, and was stopped by leopards, lions, and wolves, symbols of lust, power, and greed. At this critical moment, the ancient Roman poet Virgil appears, and he is asked to come to the aid of the woman who Dante loved in his youth, Bidelice. Virgil guides Dante through hell, where sinful souls are punished, through Purgatory, where penitent souls are held, and finally through the nine heavens that make up heaven, guided by Pydritze, he finally reaches God. At this point Dante realizes that his thoughts are in harmony with the thoughts of God, and the whole poem comes to an abrupt end. When Dante travels through hell and purgatory, many of the souls he encounters are famous figures in history or at that time, and the lines of the psalm are full of allegorical meanings, as well as strong theological and religious colors.

The translation of "Divine Comedy" by Mr. Zhu Wei is recognized as a classic poetic translation. It has been published in many editions before and has been well received by readers. Now it is included in the new edition of "Translated Illustrations Rare World Literary Masterpieces" series. The famous 19th century French printmaker Dore's illustrations for the Divine Comedy are the most popular, and we have used Dore's illustrations in previous editions, but our "Illustration Collection" specifically uses the illustrations of the famous Dadaist master and German-American painter GeorgeGrosz (1893-1959). Grosz was invited to create more than 30 illustrations for the 1932 edition of The Divine Comedy by the Modern Library of America, and the entire collection of our "Illustrated Rare Book" is printed in spot color, in order to provide readers with a fresh modernist perspective on understanding and appreciating classical literary classics. This book creatively uses bamboo board and natural linen to make the book case, the book is printed in two colors, the text is beautiful, the perfect combination, rich appreciation and collection value.

About the author

DanteAlighieri (1265-1321), the greatest Italian poet, enjoys the same reputation as Homer and Shakespeare in the history of Western literature. His masterpiece "Divine Comedy", which took more than ten years to complete, represents the highest achievement of medieval literature. The year 2011 marks the 700th anniversary of Dante's death.

GeorgeGrosz (1893-1959) was a German American painter and master of Dadaism. His works, especially his satirical paintings, made a sharp and profound criticism of the corruption of society at the time, and were therefore called "the number one cultural Bolshevik" by the Nazis. ... In the symbolic work Germany, A Winter's Fairy Tale (1919) and the series of paintings You See This Man, the contemporary society is depicted. During this period, he followed the Dada trend of art, which he described as "the organized use of madness to express contempt for a bankrupt world." During World War II, he expressed his pessimism in powerful paintings such as The Survivor (1944). (Encyclopedia Britannica)