The Brackenbury-Parysek Tribe is gearing up to read Dante's Inferno (in English, with some attention to the facing-page Italian original). But what are you waiting for? here's what Jorge Luis Borges says:
The Commedia is a book that everyone ought to read. Not to do so is to deprive oneself of the greatest gift that literature can give us; it is to submit to a strange asceticism. Why should we deny ourselves the joy of reading the Commedia?
I read the whole thing (and parts of the rest of the Commedia) but never got very into it. I had just read Aeneid 6 at the time and this pales a bit in comparison, although to be fair I don't read Italian so possibly the translation didn't do it justice.
Well, I read the first few pages. I was not drawn in very much but maybe one day when I begin to live a little.
ReplyDeleteI read the whole thing (and parts of the rest of the Commedia) but never got very into it. I had just read Aeneid 6 at the time and this pales a bit in comparison, although to be fair I don't read Italian so possibly the translation didn't do it justice.
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