“In the gorgeous grounds of Rome’s Villa Borghese park the glitterati of the movie world are gathered for a world premiere. A legendary Italian movie director has come out of retirement to create a blockbuster based on Dante’s Inferno. But, as Nic Costa and his colleagues attempt to guard the precious collection of historic artefacts attached to the event, the premiere is disrupted by tragedy and a horrific murder.” [. . .] —David Hewson
Contributed by Patrick Molloy
Philip K. Dick, 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.
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)
Johnny Depp to Play Protagonist in Nick Tosches’ Novel “In the Hand of Dante” (2002)
“Johnny Depp’s production company Infinitum Nihil has acquired screen rights to the Nick Tosches novel In the Hand of Dante. The novel will be developed as a potential star vehicle for Depp.
[. . .]
“Book revolves around Dante’s masterwork The Divine Comedy, and tells parallel storylines involving Dante in 14th-century Italy as he tries to complete the work, and a contemporary storyline involving Tosches, who is asked to authenticate what might be Dante’s original manuscript. Depp would play Tosches. The novel was published in 2002.” [. . .] –Michael Fleming, “Johnny Depp books ‘Hand of Dante,'” Variety, December 2, 2008
Contributed by Patrick Molloy
Francine Rivers, “Redeeming Love” (2007)
The 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
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