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Philip K. Dick, The Owl in Daylight (1982)

February 17, 2009 By Professor Arielle Saiber

pk-dicks-the-owl-in-daylight-1982“Philip K. Dick’s last wife has reworked the novel he was working on when he died in 1982 and is publishing the book herself, The Guardian reported. Tessa Dick, the fifth wife of the science-fiction legend, told Self-Publishing Review, an online magazine (selfpublishingreview.com), that her version of The Owl in Daylight seeks to express ‘the spirit’ of the proposed book, about which little is known. Ms. Dick said that a letter from her husband to his editor and agent revealed plans to ‘have a great scientist design and build a computer system and then get trapped in its virtual reality,’ and added: ‘The computer would be so advanced that it developed human-like intelligence and rebelled against its frivolous purpose of managing a theme park.’ The letter also mentioned Dante’s Inferno and the Faust legend, she said.”    –Ben Sisario, The New York Times, February 16, 2009

See also: “The Owl in Daylight” Wikipedia page.

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 1982, 2009, Fiction, Inferno, Journalism, Letters, Novels, Reviews, Science Fiction

Virginia Jewiss, “Il Viaggio di Dante: Un’avventura Infernale” (2008)

February 9, 2009 By Professor Arielle Saiber

il-viaggio-di-dante-un-avventura-infernale-2008A children’s book.
Text: Virginia Jewiss
Illustrations: Aline Cantono di Ceva
Idea: Christiana Castenetto
Italian version found on IBS.

An English version is also available: “Dante’s Journey: An Infernal Adventure.”

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture, Written Word
Tagged with: 2008, Children, Fiction, Illustrated Books, Illustrations, Inferno, Italy, Journeys

Stephenie Meyer, “Eclipse” (2007)

January 27, 2009 By Professor Arielle Saiber

stephenie-meyer-eclipse-2007

“This was beyond the seventh circle of Hades.”  p. 59 of Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse (NY: Little Brown Publishing, 2007)

Contributed by Audrey Adams (Oklahoma University, ’09)

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2007, Circles of Hell, Fiction, Inferno, Novels

Francine Rivers, “Redeeming Love” (2007)

December 12, 2008 By Professor Arielle Saiber

francine-rivers-redeeming-love-2007The beginning of Chapter 11 begins, “In the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself in a dark wood.”

Contributed by Mary Scott George

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2007, Dark Wood, Fiction, Inferno, Love, Nel Mezzo del Cammin, Novels

Andrew Davidson, “The Gargoyle” (2008)

August 2, 2008 By Professor Arielle Saiber

andrew-davidson-the-gargoyle-2008“Seeing the angel wings on Marianne’s bare back, the burn victim starts to melt. He also likes Marianne’s captivating conversational style. (‘For now, may I tell you a story about a dragon?’) He wonders if, how and why she is crazy. He finds a reassuring internal consistency to the string of lovelorn fairy tales she tells him, and to the 14th-century biography she claims is her own. He finds it fitting that she wants to take a badly burned man on a guided tour of Dante’s circles of hell. . . Although The Gargoyle is defiantly uncategorizable, Doubleday is hard at work taming it. (Suggested question for book club group discussions: ‘What sort of tailor-made suffering might Dante have invented for you?’).”    –Janet Maslin, The New York Times, July 31, 2008

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2008, Circles of Hell, Fiction, Hell, Journalism, Novels, Reviews

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