The Parnassus is an annual literary festival with the peculiarity that all participants are master writers…already dead. During decades, The Parnassus has been celebrated in New York, and now they want to choose a new venue: so Dante Alighieri, guided by other two (alive) writers, a young in fashion American poet and a middle-aged Mexican novelist travel to Mexico DF, on the back of three talkative rats… Between carnival and essay, between ghosts novel and road novel, between intellectuality and pop, Dante hits the road is a unique, creative novel of its own genre, and the confirmation of the place that the authoress occupies in our Hispanic letters. A brilliant celebration of the vigorous literary Latin-American tradition where, as one of the main characters says, the prints of Dante and other classics of different languages and continents are more alive than ever