L'enfer (1 of 2): La Divine Comédie - Traduit Par Rivarol

The most influential poem in Western literature drops you into darkness. Dante, midlife lost, stumbles through a forest so terrifying he compares it to death itself. Three beasts block his escape toward light. Then comes Virgil, the Roman poet dead for centuries, offering to guide Dante downward through circles of increasing torment where the guilty suffer eternally, each punishment fitting its crime. We witness lustswept souls forever whipped by wind, gluttons wallowing in filth, hoarders and wasters condemned to roll boulders into eternity, the frozen traitor Satan chewing on Judas, Brutus, and Cassius. This is not abstract theology. It is architecture of damnation, a mirror held up to sin, and ultimately a plea for redemption through love. More than seven centuries old, it reads like it was written yesterday, as if Hell itself cannot be outdated.