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Primo Levi's Divine Comedy.

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From: Midstream
Date: 20080301
Author:Jochnowitz, George

Both Dante Alighieri and Primo Levi went to hell and returned to write about it. There is even a book entitled A Dante of Our Time: Primo Levi and Auschwitz by Risa B. Sodi (1990). Levi went to a very real hell on earth, Auschwitz, which he survived and described in his book called, in different editions, Survival in Auschwitz or If This Is a Man (Se questo e un uomo in the original Italian). Dante went to hell as he imagined it and wrote about it in the "Inferno," the first third of his Divine Comedy, a three-part epic poem, which Dante simply named Commedia.

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