/lit/ - Literature

>>23420875
This guy's blasphemous power fantasy fanfic is overrated and epitomizes catholic self-righteousness and delusion

What's the best English translation of The Divine Comedy?

>>23037479
To be fair you have to admit it is at least a little bit cringe to say all your enemies are going to hell while your favorite author from over 1000 years ago praises you

>>22791082
>>22791096
It is always the same kind of people in /lit/ that come to gainsay the obvious advantages of traditionally published books. They employ two kinds of arguments:
>1. All modern books are woke.
>2. All modern books are bad.
These are, of course, generalizations that do not even hold true. I will even admit that probably most new books published are woke, but this includes even (or especially?) self-published books. But this does not mean there are sensible books out there being traditionally published. The second point they make is even more laughable, and only only needs to read three random self-published books to recognize the sharp decline in quality in comparison to traditionally published books. All these things I have mentioned should be obvious to everyone involved.

>>22204523
>>22204486
>book
>quest log
>numbers go up
Literature... Send help...

built different
where did the divine comedy reading thread disappear?

>>22119510
make sure to visit the dante reading thread >>22110780

>>22110458
hop in

Based Dante

>>22099856
>>22099884
Watch this Yale course while you read. I'll probably have to post this link to every one of these threads. The video recorded Yale course is in depth course on the whole Divine Comedy.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=679FGDpZBew&list=PLD1450DFDA859F694
>>22100220
Because he is.
>>22100368
Idiot atheists think that its about the magical sky daddy while in real life it is about the Absolute. Also, while Divine Comedy touches on religious matter, it does much more than that, being an encyclopedic work.
>>22100669
You'll probably find a proper answer to this by googling. Shortly, it is the Italian national epic, and for a good reason. Note that poetry doesn't have to rhyme, instead it can have a rhythm for example. Many things are lost in translation but none of us are willing to read fourteenth century vernacular?