Jorge Luis Borges, Nueve ensayos dantescos. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1983.
Call number: PQ 4390 .B724 1982 (Main Library)
On the Column: “Appropriations of the Divine Comedy in Other Media, Languages, and Cultures”
The volume by Argentine writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges includes nine essays on Dante, with comments on characters such as Beatrice, Ulysses, and Count Ugolino. As the author argues in the prologue, Dante’s work has a universal scope, one that can be used to read the text with innocence. Consequently, readers from around the world can enjoy both the Comedy’s universality and its microcosm of characters and events.