Besides Dante, who else in Literature visited to Hell?
maybe even metaphorically
like humbert
Besides Dante, who else in Literature visited to Hell?
Henry Nelson
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Jace Roberts
Ulysses (the real one, not the meme) and Aeneas
Cooper Diaz
Orpheus which is where the tradition originates in the west
Aiden Anderson
There's a whole genre of this, even predating Dante. I would suggest picking this up. Nice anthology:
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Jackson Evans
Orpheus, Odysseus, depending on your definition of "hell" Margarita (From Bulgakov's TM&M), I feel like at least one character from Twain's shirt stories or Roald Dahl's short stories must have.
Nathaniel Campbell
Appreciate the replies!
Colton Reed
Yea I'm wondering of any modern allusions
all I can think of is that book Where Dreams May Come
Mason Williams
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Jose Moore
Pretty much every epic hero visits the underworld in some form at one point in their journey, whether its Aenaes or Odysseus literally going into hell, or Gawain in the Green Chapel which is more of a figurative hell
Isaac Gutierrez
Really? I actually have two copies of that
Noah White
>Have nice finely woven, cozy flannel shirt
>Be eating hot dog with extra mustard because it reminds me of cock and the one time I indulged in water sports
>Take a big bite because really enjoying this everyman experience with a subversive symbolic subtext
>Mustard oozes out
>I see it as if in slow motion: the mustard drops on my favourite shirt, given to me by my mother the Christmas before she died
>Run to bathroom, apply water and soap
>It's not coming-out.jpg
>Walk to toilet in stall, drop onto it
>Stare at the stall graffiti, poorly painted over
>Two single tears tickle my hot face and collect on my upper lip
From Shirt Stories, by Malcolm Twain, with a preface by Opisafaggot
Landon Rodriguez
The Navigation of St. Brendan
Patrician and obscure as fuck
Ryder Nelson
ginsberg. pound and eliot depending on how strict your definition of modern is
Anthony Brooks
Fawkin kek'd
James Long
Persephone and her pomegranates. Gloria Naylor wrote a book based loosely on Inferno. The title I cannot remember.
Vathek, by William Beckford.
Chase Green
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Carter Roberts
Priam in the Iliad.
Kevin Jenkins
Ferdyduke
1984
Under the Volcano
Jonathan Cox
>Being a pedantic faggot
Landon Jenkins
Jesus
Not calling the Bible fiction btw
Noah Cook
Montesquieu and Macchiaveli