[ SECRET POST #2732 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2732 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I honestly don't see it

ways in which The Divine Comedy is fanfic

1) Virgil is in it

ways in which The Divine Comedy is not fanfic

1) Virgil isn't especially close to any historical account of him and is in a lot of ways an original character; the reason Dante is invoking Virgil is because of the ethical and aesthetic purpose of his own broader work
2) Literally everything else about it

Seriously, what's your argument for how it's fanfic? It never seemed at all like fanfic to me, and it's always mystified me that people talked about it that way.

[(Anonymous)]

It's a poem that has Virgil in it, plus the author and the woman he was in love with. It's already working with real people and plopping them openly in a fictional setting, one of those people is a self-insert of the author, which makes it pretty close to RPF. And let's not forget that Virgil isn't just "in" it--Virgil rescues Dante, and then guides him along for a while while Dante runs into other historical figures and saints he meets in heaven, where he then understands all of Christ's teachings. It really reads like fanfiction, specifically of the "self-insert raised up in power level" type.

You're free to disagree, of course, and I'm not saying the poem itself doesn't have other merits in terms of style or story. It just reads like a classic fanfiction plot to me in addition to that.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for this, you put how I feel into words