Bøker av Ermes Culos

This past April Ermes engaged ChatGPT in a wide variety of chats, ranging from philosophy to paradoxes to Canadian lit, to name just a few. Artificial intelligence is developing and improving very fast, so that no one should be surprised if a few years down the road one looks back at the ChatGPT responses given in this volume only to be amazed at the primitiveness and inaccuracy of some of the responses. For now, though, what stands out is ChatGPT's impressive ability to comment quickly and succinctly on any one of the given topics.

A short play, written in Friulian, Italian and English, dramatizing the friulian custom of the "pursita"

Newly revised Friulian translation of Dante's Inferno into Western Friulian.

This is a Friulian translation of Goethe's Faust (Erster Teil) presented in dual-language format: German-Friulian on facing pages

This is a translation of Christopher Marlowe's Faustus, presented in dual-language format: English-Friulian.

Newly revised Friulian translation of Dante's Purgatorio in Western Friulian.

Newly revised Friulian translation of Dante's Commedia.Edizione riveduta (2019) della mia traduzione integrale, nel friulano occidentale, della Commedia di Dante, pubblicata per la prima volta nel 2006.

This is an anthology, in dual language format (Friulian and English), of well-known literary works, or fragments of literary works, that focus on children, or on the concept of childhood. The portrayal of Sissy in Dickens' Hard Times is an example. The anthology is presented in both Friulian and English.

This is a full translation in Western Friulian of Shakespeare's Othello.

This is a full translation of Shakespeare's King Lear in the western variant of the Friulian language, with an introductory note in Friulian, Italian and English.

"What objects are the fountainsOf thy happy strain?"--That's what Shelley wanted to know of the skylark. Like all of us, the author would like to know that too. Hence this little book.

Poesie scritte in friulano (occidentale) ed in italiano. Poe¿ìis scrìtis par furlàn e par taliàn. Anthology of poems written in both Friulian (western)and Italian.