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- Anthony MastromatteoInterview
Setting aside the fact that I have no garden and despite all the efforts necessary to cultivate one, I would showcase humanity through the following 3 books: (1) The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri…from the low to the high of humanity, literally, (2) Ulysses by James Joyce…because I loved the reading of it and…
- Christian B. MillerInterview
To take an example of the last scenario, I think a case can be made that Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is the greatest creation of Western literature. Each canto is extremely nuanced and rich, with complex historical and theological allusions. I find it hard to ever feel like I am following most of what Dante had…
- Andrew HuangInterview
The Red Book by C.G. Jung, The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Neuromancer by William Gibson, Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler.
- Aaron PoochigianInterview
Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man has stayed with me since my teenage years. The books that were most influential on me, however, were Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and Dante’s The Divine Comedy. I read the latter in an outdated translation full of archaic language. I loved it, even when I didn’t…
- John SellarsInterview
I’ve been building up for a while to reading Dante. I’ve read a couple of biographies, have bought more than one translation, and last year visited the Dante House Museum during a brief visit to Florence. Everything I’ve read about The Divine Comedy emphasises its endless depths and the way in which it operates at…
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