I'm pretty sure the language is less of an issue than it being contemporary Italian political fanfiction masquerading as Biblical fanfiction.I do like how Dantes literal fanfiction changed the way popular culture views hell even hundreds of years later
Like, I'm pretty sure the world has largely forgotten the White Guelphs.
I'm pretty sure the language is less of an issue than it being contemporary Italian political fanfiction masquerading as Biblical fanfiction.It's probably the greatest work of world literature. What's wrong with it being biblically inspired? And it wasn't "fanfiction", it was Dante's commentary on what was then current events. As well as an incredible, vivid imagining of the realm of Hell.
Like, I'm pretty sure the world has largely forgotten the White Guelphs.
So, you can read Italian?
And it wasn't "fanfiction", it was Dante's commentary on what was then current events. As well as an incredible, vivid imagining of the realm of Hell.
I mean, It's Dante's commentary on then-current events , framed through bible fan fiction .
But it's kinda like emulating games. You'll get an approximation of what the original is like but it is not at all going to be the same thing on an emulator.i feel this way about every translation of anything ever
I mean, do you see why what you're saying is inherently contradictory?
I mean, do you see why what you're saying is inherently contradictory?
um, it is possible to make a fanfiction based on fiction, and a fiction, fan or otherwise, CAN be a commentary on whatever events are happening in the world at the time, so... what are you getting at here?
fanFICTION isn't fiction if it's based on current events. Especially considering a lot of the people he saw in Hell probably actually, frankly speaking, ended up in Hell according to the sins they committedYou never seen a fictionalised version of actual events? 'Based on a true story'? 'The events are real, but the dialogue is fictional'? 'Some names and details have been altered to protect the victims'?
fanFICTION isn't fiction if it's based on current events. Especially considering a lot of the people he saw in Hell probably actually, frankly speaking, ended up in Hell according to the sins they committed
I could, if I wanted to, write a harry potter fanfiction with someone that is totally Donald Trump so as to be a commentary about him, but with the character not actually literally him. It would probably be bad since I have no writing experience, but I COULD write that. Someone else who knows how to write COULD write that, and for all I know there are harry potter fanfictions that have a trump-alike in them, or even Trump himself. Or if you swing that way, you could write Biden into a Harry Potter fanfiction if you wanted. Or hell, Twilight or My Little Pony or something.
The mere fact that it is POSSIBLE for a fiction, fan or otherwise, to be a commentary on current events already ruined the argument. You don't need to defend it anymore.
No it absolutely is still fiction
Do you not understand what fiction is?
fanFICTION isn't fiction if it's based on current events. Especially considering a lot of the people he saw in Hell probably actually, frankly speaking, ended up in Hell according to the sins they committed
I could, if I wanted to, write a harry potter fanfiction with someone that is totally Donald Trump so as to be a commentary about him, but with the character not actually literally him.Then that's pure fiction. The currents events part of the equation is literally missing and is no longer there. Making that a totally different sort of story than the one you're claiming the Divine Comedy to be
Then that's pure fiction. The currents events part of the equation is literally missing and is no longer there. Making that a totally different sort of story than the one you're claiming the Divine Comedy to beif you insert fictional events into a story based on current events then it becomes fiction. What are you not understanding here?
Then that's pure fiction. The currents events part of the equation is literally missing and is no longer there. Making that a totally different sort of story than the one you're claiming the Divine Comedy to be
That is the risk of covering contextually significant current events in your story. Usually when you write in that way it is not designed for a guy 1000 years from then to read it and go "oh my sooo goood! ahh!"bruh the divine comedy is not one of the most enduring works of fiction just because kids have to read Inferno in school.
Dante probably didn't intend this at all and infact the book wasn't that well regarded till some dudes much later decided to prop it up and then force school children to read it and tell them it is so good and they must agree as part of their "education" and "culturalization".
It was originally written in Italian and the minutiae of the details in the sentences is lost when trying to take it out of its native language and into another.
my hot take is that literally everything is untranslatableThat's why people getting mad about "translations aren't true to the text" is BS when they're not translations but rather localisations by necessity
i feel this way about every translation of anything ever
bruh the divine comedy is not one of the most enduring works of fiction just because kids have to read Inferno in school.
Its concepts and depictions of the afterlife were absolutely revolutionary considering this was made in the 1300s
Owen visits four fields of punishment where, as in earlier visionary and apocalyptic accounts, sinners are devoured by dragons, set upon by serpents and toads, fixed to the ground with red-hot nails, baked in furnaces, immersed to various degrees in boiling cauldrons, and hooked to a flaming version of Ixion's wheel. Moving south, Owen and his demonic guides come upon a well from which naked bodies spew forth like sparks and then fall back into the sulphurous flames. "This is the mouth of hell," the demons say as they cast Owen in. He falls endlessly for this well is none other than the realm of utterly lost souls, the bottomless pit described in Revelation 20:1-3.32. No longer a mere spectator, Owen descends into a deadly state of oblivion, forgetting to call on God's name. Through a last-minute divine intervention, Owen remembers the invocation and a tongue of flame lifts him up to safety.
That's why people getting mad about "translations aren't true to the text" is BS when they're not translations but rather localisations by necessityi mean, sometimes stuff is changed for no reason
Sounds like a job for an AI actuallyWhat about AI has convinced you it is up for this task?
What about AI has convinced you it is up for this task?
AI be like:Paradise Lost (written by Dante from the Devil May Cry series) is an allegorical
The Second Circle of hell, according to Dante Alleghieri, is where God sends those guilty of Hornyposting where they are relentlessly bonked by Doge as punishment.
if you insert fictional events into a story based on current events then it becomes fiction. What are you not understanding here?
Writing a character who is supposed to represent Donald Trump into a fantasy novel for children would make it pure fiction.Do you think Dante actually went to hell or something?
What about AI has convinced you it is up for this task?The vast amount of tedious, overly clever, and loveless figuring that would go into such a thing
Writing a character who is supposed to represent Donald Trump into a fantasy novel for children would make it pure fiction.