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A review by blindmanbaldwin
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
I started reading it, then realized while watching a movie (Chahine's "Destiny") I wasn't actually gaining anything. I went back and started it again to get more. I don't think I got it all. Maybe down the line I'll need a third time —
Yet what I did get, in its image and fear and critique, remains. "Inferno" is a ubiquitous work throughout cultures influenced/derived from western Europe (so many images of evil come from here), yet in actually sitting down and reading it I was struck by how much is Dante attacking the political institutions and actors of his day. Society, to him, had fallen to the inferno so much where contemporary figures were seated next to some of history's worst figures in his eye.
Yet what I did get, in its image and fear and critique, remains. "Inferno" is a ubiquitous work throughout cultures influenced/derived from western Europe (so many images of evil come from here), yet in actually sitting down and reading it I was struck by how much is Dante attacking the political institutions and actors of his day. Society, to him, had fallen to the inferno so much where contemporary figures were seated next to some of history's worst figures in his eye.