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“Congo faces ‘Dante’s Inferno‘ but shuns U.N. aid effort”

July 15, 2019 By Gabriel Siwady '19

“Jean-Philippe Chauzy, head of the U.N. migration agency IOM in Congo described a microcosm of the dreadful plight of many ordinary Congolese – 1,000 families camped in a schoolyard that he visited in Kalemie, capital of Tanganyika province.

“It reminded me of when I first read Dante’s Inferno – it was absolutely awful, living conditions were absolutely atrocious,” he told Reuters. “No proper water, people defecating wherever they could, shelters made of pieces of plastic or of rags on sticks.” [. . .]    –Tom Miles, Reuters, April 13, 2018

Categories: Places, Written Word
Tagged with: 2018, Africa, Congo, Crisis, Hell, Human Rights, Immigration, Inferno, Journalism

Gregory Bellow, “Crises of the Spirit: Dante and Bellow”

October 28, 2016 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

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In an essay entitled “Crises of the Spirit: Dante and Bellow,” Gregory Bellow, oldest son of Saul Bellow and author of Saul Bellow’s Heart: A Son’s Memoir, compares three of his father’s novels to Dante’s three canticles. “Crises of the Spirit” parallels the pilgrim’s psycho-spiritual crisis and recovery with those of Bellow’s characters, and with the novelist’s own biography. Using private anecdotes and personal recollections, Gregory Bellow traces his father’s mid-life “crisis of spirit” through the Dantean themes of evil, spiritual cleansing, and love.

A PDF copy of the essay is available here, with permission of the author.

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2016, Biographies, Crisis, Healing, Literary Criticism, Literature, Love, Memoirs, Novels, Spirituality

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