tragos

Scroll to Info & Navigation

Dante is, like Kafka, one of the writers for whom the law is tremen- dously important. What is Dante’s afterworld if not a huge judicial apparatus—a secret world, parallel to and integrated with our own—that makes judgment and justice eternally visible, correcting everything and making up for everything?

Elif Batumen, in her essay, “A Divine Comedy: Among the Danteans of Florence” in this September’s issue of Harper’s.

Recent comments

Blog comments powered by Disqus