Will we ever see another work that's comparable in scope

>>9318996
>Will we ever see another work that's comparable in scope to the Divine Comedy

not until we all believe in the same thing again

>>9318996
MY DIARY DESU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


HAHA!!! I DID IT AGAIN!!!!!


HERE I COME!!!

>>9319000
What is the Divine Comedy of capitalism?

>>9319046
Atlas Shrugged

gene wolfe has done it

Malcolm Lowry tried, in interviews he stated that he wanted to make an epic out of Under the Volcano and it's sequels Under the Volcano II: Kingdom of the Taco Skull and UTV III: The Magma Rises.

>>9318996
Italian here.

The Divine Comedy is literally angry self-fullfillment fanfiction Dante used to shit on the people he despised.

Pretty sure he wrote it as a joke.

>>9319533
pls, go back to the italian thread on /b/

>>9319533
Come on, only a fifth of the Inferno is like that, the rest is extremely deep philosophical, theological and aesthetic contemplation, all delivered with the most perfect craft.

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Today? Probably no.
In post-Dante time? Already happened.

>>9320505
Give me a couple years.
>>9319533
It's still really good nigga.

>>9319533
French who read Dante in the original here. I must second that.

>>9319046
not everyone believs in capitalism.

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>>9320505
Is this an ok substitute?

>>9318996
Ulysses is pretty close I n terms of both random name dropping and totally random philosophical contemplation

>>9320603
Unfortunately, not everyone is a Catholic either, but what can ye do

>>9320650
>not everyone is a Catholic either
Not consciously, no, but you were saved by his sacrifice and you have faith (in whatever exactly it may be), so in practive it works.

>>9318996
>what is La Comédie humaine
>what is Ulysses

>>9319533
How do people say it was 100% sincere when he called it the comedy
He had to be satirizing Christianity at least a little

>>9320682
nice bait

>>9320682
Comedy had a different meaning at the time.

>>9320689
Oh what'd it mean

>>9320700
It meant your mom on all fours chugging dick smartass you have google.

>>9320656
Hahaha, literally trapped by the prison of ideology created for you by pedos.