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- Title
From the dark wood to the asphalt jungle: adaptation and appropriation in Detective Dante.
- Authors
Aletta, Alessio
- Abstract
Detective Dante (2005-2007) is a comic book miniseries written by Lorenzo Bartoli and Roberto Recchioni. The eponymous hero, Henry Dante, is a violent policeman who, haunted by the ghost of his wife, moves from New York to the fictional 'Paradise City'. The series, composed by 24 issues divided in three cycles (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso), is noticeably influenced by the Divine Comedy both in its general outline and in some single episodes; nevertheless, it ultimately tells an original story. Through a close reading of the first issue as well as more general considerations about the series in its entirety, this paper investigates the intertextual relations between Detective Dante and the Divine Comedy. In the context of Dantean comics, this series exhibits a number of unusual traits: its references are thematical and structural, rather than graphic; it contaminates elements from the Commedia with a modern and noir setting, generating unique combinations; perhaps most importantly, it refutes the subservience to the literary source typical of many comics adaptations.
- Subjects
NEW York (State); DETECTIVES; LITERARY sources; ASPHALT; COMIC books, strips, etc.; JUNGLES; FILM adaptations; FILM noir; 13TH century (Literary period)
- Publication
BETWEEN, 2020, Vol 10, Issue 20, p267
- ISSN
2039-6597
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13125/2039-6597/4220