The Wisdom of Hope and Other Conversations about Dante
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Olga Sedakova's book 'The Wisdom of Hope and Other Conversations about Dante' continues her previous book 'Translating Dante' (2020), but it is no longer about translating Dante into Russian, but rather a discussion on his 'innate and insatiable thirst for understanding', about Dante as a thinker and a poet-theologian. The book is divided into three parts. The first section contains works directly related to the 'Divine Comedy'. Among them, we especially note the essay 'Circle, Cross, Man', published for the first time and dedicated to the Ravenna Dante and his anthropology, unexpectedly resonant with early Christian thought. The second section includes works about the Italian context of Dante and his presence in Russian poetry. The third small section contains translations of fragments from 'New Life' and takes us back to the beginning of Dante's journey. All translations from Italian and other languages are done by the author. Almost all essays included in the book are published either for the first time in Russian or for the first time ever.
Including in her thought the experience of many readers and researchers - Dante scholars, poets, philosophers, theologians - Sedakova's book represents a deeply personal and in many ways unexpected reading of the 'Divine Comedy'. In dialogue with such a grandiose and provocative interlocutor as Dante, the author brings to the forefront themes important to her as a poet, philologist, and thinker: hope and will, wisdom and reason, geometry and flesh, creation and freedom.
'Beauty is not only the last, final word of Dante's worldview. It is his initial word. Beauty precedes Dante's very first poetic word. Beauty compels him to start speaking ('making footnotes' to the book of his life) and to make a great promise: to create in its honor something that no one else has created. The epiphany of beauty in his life begins with the 'new miracle' of young Beatrice, her apparition, which early and forever brought the red color of martyrdom, the color of new life, into Dante's life. And then - the world's only voyage-narrative under the wind of Minerva'. Olga Sedakova
2nd edition.
Author:
Author:Sedakova Olga Alexandrovna
Cover:
Cover:hardcover
Category:
- Category:History & Geography
- Category:Historical Literature
Dimensions:
Dimensions:22x15x2.9 cm
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-89059-505-8
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