{"product_id":"the-correctional-facility-paperback","title":"The Correctional Facility - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam H. Schubart\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJeff Danziger\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator), \u003cb\u003eMason Singer\u003c\/b\u003e (Designed by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Correctional Facility\u003c\/em\u003e is an illustrated novella updating Dante Alighieri's 700-year-old classic \u003cem\u003eThe Inferno\u003c\/em\u003e. Our guide however is not Virgil but Walt Whitman and Dante's flaming pits are succeeded by modern brutalist prison architecture. Many of the sins of Dante's time persist today, but mankind has scaled old ones and invented new ones. Invention, technology, economics, and politics have, since Dante's time, nuanced and scaled our concept of evil.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaised as a Catholic in rural Vermont, I was infused with an awareness of sin and penitence, but also absolution and forgiveness. My late teenage encounter with Dostoevsky's \"Legend of the Grand Inquisitor\" shattered my youthful allegiance to Catholic dogma, but it's one thing to walk away from Catholic doctrine and quite another to lose the weight of its beauty, fear, and guilt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShortly after I read \u003cem\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/em\u003e, in which \"The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor\" occurs as a story told by Ivan Karamazov, the sybarite, to his novice monk brother, Alyosha, I read Dante's \u003cem\u003eInferno\u003c\/em\u003e. I was fascinated by the vivid portrayal of the hell I'd heard about so graphically from the Québécois sisters who came down to teach Saturday morning catechism. I saw in Dante's work and the extraordinary illustrations of Gustav Doré the hell I had imagined in catechism, a hell that haunts my imagination to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs sin a temporal concept? Some of the sins of Dante's time are not viewed as such today: heresy, suicide, concupiscence. His simple architecture of human sin is lost today in scale and technology. In 1320, one killed with one's hands or with a piercing weapon like a stiletto, battle-axe, or sword, or with poison. Today, we have drones, nuclear bombs, and industrial toxins leaching into our soil, water, food, and air - and Pharma: subliminal mass homicides.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Correctional Facility\u003c\/em\u003e comes after a lifetime of living with Catholicism and Dante's weight of sin, evil, punishment, expiation, and redemption, and is my effort to make sense of it all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 134\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.31 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42728212561983,"sku":"9781735505015","price":23.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/0be16750fbdf0189d92ae6c16bf52e6e.webp?v=1765117681","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-correctional-facility-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}