Word: infernos
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...book, there are people both at Harvard and in Boston who wish to keep Dante from the public. Work on the translation comes to a halt when a series of murders resembling scenes from Dante’s Inferno takes place...
...wants to play Hamlet.” O’Keefe says. “He wants to be a real artist and he gets a new agent, who is of course a new agent of the devil…a sort of Dante’s Clown Inferno...
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...like him as "just a piece of meat on a cutting board", and the next admitting to a shameful desire to be an official, to be the knife that cuts. He sings fragments of revolutionary songs in praise of Chairman Mao, then discourses on a passage from Dante's Inferno as if it were his own. In hallucinatory snatches, Yang releases secrets from his past: the agony of watching his books burn during the Cultural Revolution; a buried infidelity; an unexpected love...
...closer to June 4, it becomes clear, almost too clear, that the pent-up anguish of Yang, his student and all of seething China will break open in Beijing, "the sick heart of this country." Jin's description of the massacre is vivid, short and sorrowful, suffused with the Inferno-like imagery he evokes throughout the novel. Frenzy overtakes first the soldiers, "unstoppable like a crazed dragon," and then their victims, consumed by grief, cursing the government even as they fall. It's at Tiananmen that Jin's scrupulous realism, which can prove a drag, pays off with bitter authenticity...