DOREHe illustrated everything -The rocks of the Bible and Don Quixote,Ancient Judea and Rome,Life itself with its abundance of gifts.He illustrated everything -Through engravings, I imagine, a codeOf the world he deciphered – how understandable is it to ot ❯❯❯
A WORD ABOUT DON QUIXOTEHis skinny horse and his long lance...(…Does my suffering matterIn this life?…)Don Quixote rides on.Many misfortunes await help.So what if its a windmill? Let it be.Defeat promises sadness.But the most important thing is the desire ❯❯❯
RABELAISGargantua is powerful enough toUproot a house – Tear it from the ground.A giant playing at it – More frightening than fire, emptier than ashes.An excess of substanceIn this novel of infernal abundance.Food is important; what need for words?Pangur w ❯❯❯
DANTEA sharp profile in a high-pointed cap,Or crowned with a laurel wreath.His home, heavy in Florence, a massive stone,Grey and black, so contrasting to the light?How to write about Dante? But the temptationIs overwhelming. I was in Ravenna.I stared at hi ❯❯❯
HELLEverything condensed into darkness devoid of light – The movement of bodies, groans, and sorrow.Excessive symbolism, and thisConfirms that the judgment will not be swift.Twistedness and the stifling of flames,And each one carries this within themselves ❯❯❯
REMEMBERING THE PROPHET ISAIAHDistancing oneself fromDeceptions and illusions.Stone antsKnow many dead paths.The July heat is almost boiling.Your days are counted.But Isaiahs voice is powerful! -It sounds with bitterness and pain.And it fills the brain.A b ❯❯❯
DANTEA sharp profile in a high-pointed cap,Or in a laurel wreath.A heavy house in Florence, solid and imposing,Gray-black, with light providing a stark contrast?How to write about Dante? But the temptationIs overwhelming. I was in Ravenna.I stared at his m ❯❯❯
Layers of metaphors -And each layer is imbued with meaning beyond grasp.Sometimes, overwhelmed by the density of enumeration,You feel weary – you think this is just ballast – That if you discard it, you will fly towards ultimate meanings.But not a single w ❯❯❯
ECSTASY. EZEKIELS VISIONSThere is no snow in December. From Pushkin.A quote? No, its reality.Bears cannot sleep. They roam through the outskirtsAnd through the forests, and I amIn some kind of... horror?The brilliance of the day is extinguished; I walk thr ❯❯❯
POEM ABOUT CHRISTReproduction by Mantegna or Holbein – where the body is like a landscape.We are accustomed to distorted forms,To a dead appearance, and this landscape is ours.Again we crucify Christ,And not Kazantzakis novelDo we read with fervent zeal.Ch ❯❯❯
BIBLICAL POEMHad Daniil Andreev knownWhat awaited our world half a century hence! There was no global war he had foreseen,But humanity has changed – who, why, and how?Its something even the Rose of the World couldnt imagine.The darkness of pop stars, the s ❯❯❯
All the works by G. Doré in this album (excluding those that appear in other albums) have been processed and translated by me (where translation was required). The poetic lines were taken from Dantes Divine Comedy (translation by M. Lozinsky), although the ❯❯❯
Grandma, Grandma, why do you have such ears?- So I can hear you better, my child.Grandma, Grandma, why do you have such eyes?- So I can see you better, my child.Grandma, Grandma, why do you have such a nose?- Just look at your own, dear.(A production of Li ❯❯❯
I open the page. It says: Empyrean. On the right, theres a banner advertising thongs and bare buttocks. So, is Empyrean where living women reside, or is it a place inhabited by a crowd of winged castrati? ❯❯❯
In Hell, a whirlwind carries a long procession of sinful souls. In Heaven, the wind carries a long procession of righteous souls. In the same whirlwind, the damned weep, while the blessed laugh. Is that all there is to it? ❯❯❯
Heres what seems like a peaceful landscape, but it gives the distinct feeling of seeing another circle of hell – after all, it was illustrated by Doré. ❯❯❯
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