Is he right? Is the Divine Comedy sci-fi?
>>7746087
Borges said the same thing, basically.
He loved Dante and he loved the Quran because it was trippy fantasy to him.
>>7746094
Wolfe said since theology is a science, The Divine Comedy is sci-fi
>>7746087
Who is spamming Wolfe threads? Like ask in one of the two already going.
Awww shit another good ol Gene Wolfe thread!
>>7746120
just sage it and carry on in the other active threadds
>>7746144
Nah. We could use some more threads about the one and only lord and savior.
>>7746087
Wolfe is always. ALWAYS. right.
>>7746110
i only did one of them, the rest are spawning after i went hardcore meme the other day and spammed his name in practically every thread.
>retroactively apply a genre that only came into existence fairly recently as a marketing term for genre lit to a book written hundreds of years a go
Don't do that
>>7747179
It's proof that sci-fi can be literary
>>7747193
The point is that 'science fiction' as a conception didn't even exist until hundreds of years after Dante, so it's stupid to apply the term to The Divine Comedy.
You're applying what is largely a marketing term to a guys work who had no idea about the tropes or genre that the term is even denoting.
>>7747381
It could be retroactively read as a Marxist metaphor for government but it isn't. See Harold Bloom
>>7747413
Is that a good comparison for today's people to understand? - yes. Does that make it sci fi? - no
>>7746087
for an actual SF take on dante , read Niven and Pournelle's Inferno....
>>7747420
I agree.It just means that SF is not inherently less valuble than realism.