"Bob Dylan in Hell" is an original and valiant reinterpretation of Dante's Inferno tuned with an illustrious soundtrack: ten songs by the songwriter who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. What does Bob Dylan have in common with Dante? What is the point of descending into Hell through American songs? Everything starts in 1975, with "Blood on the Tracks". The blood emerges from eternal wounds, from the shadows where damned souls are suffering. If we listen to the characters in Dante's poem and we confront their words with some of Dylan's verses, we realize that the same snares, the same evil intentions inhabit people of every time and place. For that reason, real Poetry keeps furiously echoing from Hell the universal principles that we are too often guilty of forgetting. In this sense, Dante is as contemporary as Dylan and Dylan is as profound as Dante. These two great authors both sing with a mighty, poetic voice that directly addresses every single one of us. This book is an invitation to listen to their voices.