In one story in this collection, the narrator compares a mine with a cone-shaped gorge to Dante’s “schematic representations of hell.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this memoiristic short story collection by Primo Levi, which contains the story “Iron.” Levi and his friend steal the title substance from a prison in this collection’s story “Cerium.”
ANSWER: The Periodic Table [or Il sistema periodico]
[10e] In Primo Levi’s If This is a Man, he recites Inferno’s Canto 26 to the French-speaking Jean in this place. Elie Wiesel is sent to this place in Night.
ANSWER: Auschwitz concentration camp [accept lager, the Jewish term Levi uses; prompt on concentration camp or death camp by asking, "Which one?"]
[10h] This Peter Weiss play, once the planned third in a trilogy of plays structured after the Divine Comedy, is split into 11 “cantos,” in which concentration camp victims testify during the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials.
ANSWER: The Investigation: Oratorio in 11 Cantos
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