/lit/ - Literature

Dante, Giacomo Leopardi, Alda Merini

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>he thinks this reading technique which is nothing more than a reflection of the braindead consumerist culture of our times is something worth striving for
Sad!

>just a thinly veiled autobiography. to remedy this i began heavy edits that made it more akin to magical realism.
thats how all serious litterature works desu

What do you think about prose translations of old poetry like Dante, Homer etc?

dantedition

So, we had a pretty good thread a couple days ago about italian writing, let's see if we can keep another one going.

>post your stuff and get critique
>discuss italian authors
Also, I think it would be fair if we discuss known italian authors in English so our fellow foreigners can join in on the discussion or get some good reccomendations

I'm back at the bookstore, reading Dante. (I've settled on Kirkpatrick's translation.) A few feet away in the poetry section there's a pretty girl looking through books as well. Not planning on striking conversation unless there's anything pertinent to say, but obviously I'm hoping something pertinent happens to say about. After a bit of time, out of nowhere, comes into the scene a guy with peroxide blonde hair. "Hey K?" "Yeah." "I'm L, nice to meet you!" They have a semiformal, first-Tinder-date half-embrace. L asks, without any pause, poor guy seems so out-of-place and awkward, "So what kind of stuff do you like to read?” "Um, weird stuff," she says. (Sounds nice to me.) "Oh cool, I like to read a lot. I'm *really* into sci-fi." She visibly makes a face. "And classics, you know, like the stuff we read in school." "Like what?" she asks. "Oh, like, To Kill A Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men," you know. She smiles and gently shakes her head. I know it would be inappropriate for me to put myself in the scene, to say or do something, so I don't, but at the same time I'm feeling if in any circumstance it is imperative, let alone appropriate, for me to put myself in the scene or do or say about anything, it is this. I don't do or say anything. They leave in a minute. I go back to Hell.

Hey /lit/, I'm taking a course on Dante that covers the Comedy and a few of his earlier works (La Vita Nuova, specifically).

I have to write a short essay for an assignment on Inferno, the topic being a persuasive attempt to rescue one of the fleshed out souls Dante encounters through Hell.

I'm having a little trouble choosing one that's relatively original (boo hoo save Francesca), and I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts on the topic.

If you had to choose one soul to save from the Inferno, who would you pick and why?