“Bizarre and beautiful, disturbing and droll, The Temptation of St. Tony wonders what it means to be a good man. Kicking off with a quotation from Dante’s Inferno, this delirious sophomore feature from the Estonian filmmaker Veiko Ounpuu observes Tony (Taavi Eelmaa), a triumphantly depressed middle manager. Dissatisfied with his adulterous wife and a boss who orders him to sack all his factory workers, Tony descends into a midlife crisis that manifests itself as a series of increasingly hilarious, horrific visions.” [. . .] –Jeannette Catsoulis, The New York Times, September 16, 2010
Caroline Bergvall, Dante Variations
“As of May, 2000 the British Library housed 48 different translations of Dante’s Inferno into English.
“Poet and sound artist Caroline Bergvall gathers the opening lines of each translation in her sound piece VIA (48 Dante Variations).
“Bergvall reads the opening of each translation then names the translator and the date of the publication. The result is powerful. The overarching monotony sprinkled with the subtlety of each translation and the hypnotic drone of Bergvall’s voice leaves the listener transfixed as they await the next rendering of Dante’s lines. The piece conveys the inherent complexity of the art of translation and illuminates the uniqueness of each translator’s work.” –Michael Lieberman, Book Patrol, December 15, 2009
Read Bergvall’s piece at poetryfoundation.org.
Listen to the performance here.
Contributed by Patrick Molloy
Evil Diva’s “(Really) Old Man Adventures”
Evil Diva is a webcomic about a young devil who becomes a superhero. With the help of “Mr. Virgil,” Diva learns how to control her powers and find her place among the forces of good and evil. Dante appears in the sporadic mini-comics entitled “(Really) Old Man Adventures” as well as in some of the other sketch comics on the site. A four part series in the “(Really) Old Man Adventures” reinterprets and illustrates early parts of the Inferno and references the Vita Nuova.
Contributed by Michelle Scharlock (McGill University)
Deborah Copaken Kogan, “Between Here and April” (2009)
Between Here and April, a novel by Deborah Copaken Kogan, is an allegory of the Inferno. The middle-aged female protagonist “falls” into darkness at the beginning, but, being female, she has no Virgil to guide her. Dr. Karen (Charon) Rivers (Styx) is there to guide her to the underworld (her subconscious.) Each character she meets while researching the death of her friend at the hand of her mother represents a new circle of hell. (Mavis/lust & gluttony; Trudy/hoarders & wasters; etc.)
Learn more about the novel at Barnes and Noble.
Aidan Harte, Inferno Sculptures (2009)
“I’ve been working on this collection since I came back from Italy, and thinking about it for a lot longer. For what I want to do, combine realism with imaginative expressionism, sculpture is the perfect medium. In print and TV, we’re pepper-sprayed with visuals every hour of every day these days. It’s become very easy to tune it out as visual noise – somehow, for me at least, sculpture isn’t like that. Maybe it’s because it’s not an image of something but (seemingly) the thing itself – with mass and dimension, that it still demands our undivided attention. And maybe that’s why bad sculpture is so offensive, and great sculpture so sublime.
I’ve worked hard to try to make these pieces capture the imagination in the way Dante captured mine.” —Aidan Harte, July 7, 2009
“Dante obsessed me when I studied sculpture in Italy. The Inferno contains a world of characters, but I chose to sculpt only those which spoke to my life. Each piece relates to a verse, recreating Dante’s journey in Hell….” —Aidan Harte (retrieved on January 16, 2010)
See more sculptures by Aidan Harte at Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
Contributed by Guy Raffa
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