“My will and my desire were turned by love, the love that moves the sun and the other stars.” –Jace Wayland, City of Bones (2013)
You can watch Mortal Instruments: City of Bones on Netflix, Hulu, Vudu, and Amazon Prime.
Joshua Mohr on his novel Fight Song (2013)
In an interview with Royal Young, Josh Mohr describes the research he did in San Francisco, as he prepared to write his novel Fight Song (Soft Skull Press, 2013): “I did four days of terrible reconnaissance work, where I went to a couple suburbs in the East Bay and South Bay and took some pictures and notes. Then I wrote the most horrific place I could possibly envision. If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs.” —Joshua Mohr, interview with Interview Magazine (2013)
Read the full interview here.
Dante’s Pizza & Pasta, Klerksdorp, South Africa
Dante’s Pizza & Pasta is located in La Piazza Square in Klerksdorp, South Africa.
Kader Attia, Dispossesion (2013)
“Soul—the term occurs often, meant in a rigorously philosophical sense as a ‘vital principle’ or ‘bodily entelechy.’ Just like all the medieval masters, Dante sees in man a being made up of both body and soul. As regards the relationship between the two components, Dante sticks to the Aristotolean solutions, adopted unanimously by the theologians of the day. Hence, the soul may be conceived and represented as separate from the body, in its definitive condition of a dweller in the kingdoms of the afterlife. In this sense, the term is used countless times to refer to the shadows of the dead in their concrete individuality: ‘O spirit courteous of Mantua’ (Inferno, Canto II, 58); ‘But all those souls who weary were and naked,/Their colour changed’ (Inferno, Canto III, 100).”
Retrieved from The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists by Simon Njami.
For more on the French-Algerian artist Kader Attia, see Wikipedia.
Pascale Marthine Tayou, Sisiphe remontant le tarmac (2013)
“Miserere—In vulgar Latin, it is the first word of Psalm 50: ‘Miserere mei, Deus, secundum magnam misericordiam tuam,’ used in the Catholic liturgy in funeral services, in the rites of Lent and the Holy Week, and generally in the orations of penitence. The penitential psalm is sung in the Comedy by the rows of the dead, in the second terrace of Ante-Purgatory, and the chant, is recited in alternate verses (‘singing the “Miserere” verse by verse’ [Purgatorio, Canto V, 24]), is interrupted by an exclamation of astonishment when the souls realize from his shadow that Dante is alive. In a rather different context, however, the expression ‘Miserere mei’ is cried out by Dante at the appearance of Virgil’s shadow in the forest (Inferno, Canto I, 65).”
Retrieved from The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists by Simon Njami.
For more on the Cameroonian artist Pascale Marthine Tayou, see Wikipedia.
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