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- Title
The Narrative Ordeal of Enduring Love: A Divine Comedy Recast.
- Authors
Botero Camacho, Manuel; Rodríguez Pérez, Miguel
- Abstract
This article establishes a connection between Ian McEwan's Enduring Love and Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. It defends that the narrative journey of Joe Rose, protagonist of McEwan's novel, to recover his idyllic lost love resembles Dante's voyage through Hell and Purgatory led by Virgil to the threshold of Earthly Paradise, where he meets Beatrice. The psychological and metaphorical hell to which Joe is subjected in the wake of a ballooning accident constitutes an ordeal in which, led by Jed Parry's obsessive love, he confronts and purges the trauma in a redemptive arc that brings him closer to a promising yet uncertain paradise.
- Subjects
ENDURING Love (Book); DIVINE Comedies (Book); MCEWAN, Ian, 1942-; DANTE Alighieri, 1265-1321; LITERARY style
- Publication
Anglia: Journal of English Philology / Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie, 2024, Vol 142, Issue 1, p118
- ISSN
0340-5222
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/ang-2024-0009