/lit/ - Literature

why is a cheesy self inserted bible fanfic so popular with pseudointellectual collage professors?

>>17154019
>The structure is this:
If you have to explain what you just wrote in this way, it means your writing isn't communicating the necessary information.

Yes, you can say it's "supposed" to be obscure, but unless you're prepared to add a bunch of footnotes (which would defeat the purpose of your attempts), or have people disregard your story entirely, I recommend thinking a little more about actually communicating to the reader.

Was he a simp?

How does one go about learning Dante's Italian? I imagine it's not as easy as simply learning contemporary Italian. Also looking for tips when it comes to Petrarca and Boccaccio.

>>16358139
this

>writes a self inserted bible fanfic
>has his idols guide him through hell
>people he doesn't like are suffering in hell
>includes the girl he has autisticly obsessed over since he was 9 in it

why is the guy considered a great poet again?

What does /lit/ think of this fellow?

Babada boopy
siete pazzi
babada boopy babada

What's so good/cogent about Fascism? Why is violence necessary? What role did Dante Alighieri have in the ideology, because he's being mentioned so much?

>>14303074
You still have to read some of the presocratics anon.Centrally Heraclitus who had one of the largest influences not alone on Socrates and Plato, but the entirety of Western philosophy also. For example and most notably within the modern tradition Hegel, Nietzsche, and Heidegger.

After him, read the Romans/all major boos of the Bible, early Christian Theologians(like Augustine), early Hermetic/Gnostic texts and the Neoplatonists. From here on out read some medieval literature like Beowulf, Nibelungenlied/Volsungs Saga, Poetic Edda, Prose Edda, Parzival(Wolfram), Aquinas(a few other Theologians like Catherine, William, Eckhart etc), Dante and Chaucer. Once you've done this give or take a few works (like some Icelandic sagas) you can move past the medieval period and isn't as necessary to truly scrape every detail of it like you did the Greeks. And finally start heavily on some modern philosophy like Descartes and Kant. I find the renaissance to be a beautiful optional period to read. Something you can come and go back to given some key works.

>>14167338
Can any guy give me a quick rundown on Dante and his works in general. I am going to read his Divine Comedy at some point soon along with his smaller poems and wish to know as much about him as I do the others. His views, his life, his character, his inspiration, etc.

*writes self insert fan fiction

I see the quote "Follow your own star" attributed to Dante Alighieri in various places, but where did he ever write anything like that? I can't find it.

Typically, when I read a book and there is a lot of religious mumbo jumbo concerning Jesus, God, Christianity, etc., I usually get annoyed with it quickly.

I'm really interested though in reading Dante's Divine Comedy, at the very least Inferno. As a non-believer, is it still possible to enjoy this apparent masterpiece or even still take something away from it?

>Dante used to sit on a rock watching the construction of Florence’s cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore, more famously known as the Duomo, which was begun in 1296. He would reportedly sit alone for hours, writing love poems to Beatrice, and the rock became known as “il sasso di Dante,” or Dante’s rock. One day, a fellow Florentine passed by and asked the poet, “What do you like to eat for breakfast?” Not looking up, Dante replied: “Eggs.” A year later, the same Florentine supposedly found the poet perched on the same rock, again lost in thought, and decided to test the poet’s famous memory. “How?” he asked. “With salt,” Dante quickly answered.