Is he right? Is the Divine Comedy sci-fi?

>>7746087
Borges said the same thing, basically.

He loved Dante and he loved the Quran because it was trippy fantasy to him.

>>7746094
Wolfe said since theology is a science, The Divine Comedy is sci-fi

>>7746087
Who is spamming Wolfe threads? Like ask in one of the two already going.

Awww shit another good ol Gene Wolfe thread!

>>7746120
just sage it and carry on in the other active threadds

>>7746144
Nah. We could use some more threads about the one and only lord and savior.

>>7746087
Wolfe is always. ALWAYS. right.

>>7746110
i only did one of them, the rest are spawning after i went hardcore meme the other day and spammed his name in practically every thread.

>retroactively apply a genre that only came into existence fairly recently as a marketing term for genre lit to a book written hundreds of years a go

Don't do that

>>7747179
It's proof that sci-fi can be literary

>>7747193
The point is that 'science fiction' as a conception didn't even exist until hundreds of years after Dante, so it's stupid to apply the term to The Divine Comedy.

You're applying what is largely a marketing term to a guys work who had no idea about the tropes or genre that the term is even denoting.

>>7747179
>>7747212

But could it not be considered sci-fi retroactively? It can very easy be read as sci-fi even if it wasn't expressly written with that intent.

>>7747381
It could be retroactively read as a Marxist metaphor for government but it isn't. See Harold Bloom

>>7747401
>>7747381
Argument Wolfe makes is
Theology was a for science Dante
Comedy was a theological fiction
Comdey was for Dante what SF is for a todays man

>>7747413
Is that a good comparison for today's people to understand? - yes. Does that make it sci fi? - no

>>7746087
for an actual SF take on dante , read Niven and Pournelle's Inferno....

>>7747420
I agree.It just means that SF is not inherently less valuble than realism.