Jorge Luis Borges, “Seven Nights” (1984)
What is it, some kind of saucy…? STOP! Stop right there. Borges is probably one of the greatest writers – and certainly one of the greatest literary minds – South America and the world has produced....
View ArticleDante, Ugolino and a father’s terrible, terrible loss
Attentive readers will know that I recently began to tackle Dante in easy stages. The idea of Dante had been taunting me for a while and I finally I bought Ciaran Carson’s translation of the Inferno at...
View ArticleThe War Against Myth By The East And The West
In Italo Calvino’s essay ‘Jorge Luis Borges’ he describes how in Borges’ poem about ‘Ariosto and the Arabs’, the ousting of the legends of the Medieval West by the legends of the Orient were a kind of...
View ArticleVirgil, Dante’s “Sweetest Father”
I finally finished Dante’s Purgatory, the second canticle of the Divine Comedy. I suspect many of us get rather stuck with the Inferno and I certainly don’t know of any video games based on Purgatory...
View ArticleFive reasons to read Dante’s Divine Comedy in 2012
It’s the closest you will ever get to being able to quite literally read a cathedral. Medieval cathedrals are gigantic assemblages of Christian theology, philosophy and apologetics in stone. Each...
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