The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), 1321
Ατμόσφαιρα: δέος, φόβος και ελπίδα. Μιλά για την πίστη, την ηθική και τον χρόνο.
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Whereat to turn mine eyes on BeatriceMy seeing nothing and my love constrained me.If what has hitherto been said of herWere all concluded in a single praise,Scant would it be to serve the present turn.Not only does the beauty I beheldTranscend ourselves, but truly I believeIts Maker only may enjoy it all.Vanquished do I confess me by this passageMore than by problem of his theme was everO’ercome the comic or the tragic poet;For as the sun the sight that trembles most,Even so the memory of that sweet smileMy mind depriveth of its very self. When underneath us was the stairway allRun o’er, and we were on the highest step,Virgilius fastened upon me his eyes,And said: “The temporal fire and the eternal,Son, thou hast seen, and to a place art comeWhere of myself no farther I discern.By intellect and art I here have brought thee;Take thine own pleasure for thy guide henceforth;Beyond the steep ways and the narrow art thou.Behold the sun, that shines upon thy forehead;Behold the grass, the flowerets, and the shrubsWhich of itself alone this land produces. One from among them saw I coming forward,As to embrace me, with such great affection,That it incited me to do the like.O empty shadows, save in aspect only!Three times behind it did I clasp my hands,As oft returned with them to my own breast!I think with wonder I depicted me;Whereat the shadow smiled and backward drew; Βιβλία με παρόμοια αίσθηση
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Dante Alighieri, 1320
Ένας άνθρωπος χάνεται σ’ ένα σκοτεινό δάσος και οδηγείται μέσα από τους εννιά κύκλους της Κόλασης. Ο ποιητής δίνει σε κάθε αμαρτωλό φωνή, παράπονο και έναν λόγο που σχεδόν καταλαβαίνεις.
Πού θα το βρεις
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Ερωτήσεις αναγνωστών
- Πώς είναι το «The Divine Comedy»;
- Ατμόσφαιρα: δέος, φόβος και ελπίδα. Μιλά για την πίστη, την ηθική και τον χρόνο.
- Τι να διαβάσω μετά το «The Divine Comedy»;
- Αν σου άρεσε το «The Divine Comedy», δοκίμασε «The Pilgrim’s Progress» (John Bunyan), «Το κόνισμα» (Ανδρέας Καρκαβίτσας) και «The Idiot» (Fyodor Dostoevsky).
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So I saw in my dream, that just as Christian came up with the cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders, and fell from off his back, and began to tumble, and so continued to do, till it came to the mouth of the sepulchre, where it fell in, and I saw it no more.
The Pilgrim’s Progress · John Bunyan
What it feels like to discover you have been missing something all along.
As the days went by, the evolution of like into love was accelerated. White Fang himself began to grow aware of it, though in his consciousness he knew not what love was. It manifested itself to him as a void in his being—a hungry, aching, yearning void that clamoured to be filled. It was a pain and an unrest; and it received easement only by the touch of the new god’s presence. At such times love was joy to him, a wild, keen-thrilling satisfaction. But when away from his god, the pain and the unrest returned; the void in him sprang up and pressed against him with its emptiness, and the hunger gnawed and gnawed unceasingly.
White Fang · Jack London
What stays unforgiven when a crime becomes the price of peace?
My lot be still to lead The life of innocence and fly Irreverence in word or deed, To follow still those laws ordained on high Whose birthplace is the bright ethereal sky. No mortal birth they own, Olympus their progenitor alone: Ne’er shall they slumber in oblivion cold, The god in them is strong and grows not old.
Oedipus Rex · Sophocles
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