![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He knew the descriptions of hell from the Bible and Greek mythology, "but nothing was as vivid as Dante's hell." I couldn't believe it was written 700 years ago." It was "a watered-down Italian version," he recalls, "but it was the darkest, scariest thing I had ever read. In an interview, Brown, 48, says he first read Dante's Inferno 30 years ago as a prep school senior studying Italian. Langdon's new adversary is a genius in genetic engineering who's obsessed with both global overpopulation and with Dante, whose version of hell, the madman warns, "is not fiction … It is prophecy!" In Brown's new novel, Inferno (Doubleday), Langdon ends up in Florence, Italy, matching wits with another madman who also leaves clues based on Dante's poem. MORE: Clive James on Brown: 'I pity him deeply'? REVIEW: Inferno is one hell of a good readĪT THE MOVIES: Brown's Inferno likely to become a film In Brown's 2009 best seller, The Lost Symbol, Langdon, a fictional Harvard professor, is summoned to Washington, D.C., to find a kidnapper who leaves clues filled with Masonic symbols. And I wanted to put Robert Langdon (his recurring hero) on U.S. ![]() Yet he didn't want to follow The Da Vinci Code, his 2003 blockbuster, with "another Italian thriller. NEW YORK - A decade ago, Dan Brown says, he got the idea for a novel that would use the Inferno, Dante's epic,14th-century poem envisioning the nine circles of Hell, as both "catalyst and inspiration." Watch Video: Five Questions for author Dan Brown ![]()
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