英文摘要 |
Every reader of Dante's inferno will perhaps agree that the scene in Canto 33 where count Ugolino recounts the starvation to death of his children and himself in the 'tower of hunger' vies well with the scene where the unfortunate lovers Francesca and Paolo appear in Canto 5 as the most moving episode of the book. The most apparent contributing factors to the emotional appeal of the episode are naturally the horror and pain inherent in the starvation itself and the narrative tour de force employed to convey such horror and pain. However, there is yet another important contributing factor which is generally overlooked, namely the use of an uncanny dream. |