Abstract
The article examines the phenomenon of Dante’s impact on the modern reader. The author of the article claims that the main reason for Dante’s continuing allure despite the seven centuries that have elapsed since his day and the considerable complexity of his chef d’oeuvre Divine Comedy is the fact that he addresses all readers and their personalities, on the one hand, and the notion of the poet as a prophet and an existential teacher, on the other. The article examines the literary principles and techniques used by Dante to carry out his mission of an “existential teacher” for new generations of readers. To illustrate this thesis, the author analyzes two recent books about Dante written by the Italian pedagogue Franco Nembrini and the Russian philologist, historian and priest Fr. Georgy Chistyakov, who perceived Dante in a very similar way as an existential teacher and his Divine Comedy as an inexhaustible source of human stories and situations that help the reader to make the right choice and as a guide to life that saves one from getting lost in the “dark forest” and that remains topical in all times.
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