The System of Dante's Hell

The System of Dante's Hell
First edition
Author	LeRoi Jones
Language	English
Published	1965
Publisher	Grove Press

The System of Dante's Hell is a short novel by African-American writer LeRoi Jones,^[1] published in 1965 by Grove Press. The novel follows a young black man living nomadically in big cities and small towns in the Southern United States, and his struggles with segregation and racism. The book correlates the man's experience with Dante's Inferno, and includes a diagram of the fictional hell described by Dante.

References

↑ Tosches, Nick (2000). "The Devil and Sonny Liston". The New York Times.

Dante's Divine Comedy

Characters

Inferno	Acheron Alichino Barbariccia Ciampolo Cocytus Dis Malacoda Malebranche Malebolge Minos Phlegethon Satan Scarmiglione Styx

Purgatorio	Eunoe Forese Donati Statius

Paradiso	Piccarda

Verses

Adaptations

Classical music	Après une Lecture de Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata (Liszt, 1849) Dante Symphony (Liszt, 1857) Francesca da Rimini (Tchaikovsky, 1876) Francesca da Rimini (Rachmaninoff, 1904) Francesca da Rimini (Zandonai, 1914) Gianni Schicchi (Puccini, 1918) The Divine Comedy (Smith, 1996)

Paintings	The Barque of Dante (Delacroix, 1822) The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides (Blake, 1827) Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta appraised by Dante and Virgil (Scheffer, 1835) Pia de' Tolomei (Rossetti, 1868) Paolo and Francesca da Rimini (Rossetti, 1885) La barca de Aqueronte (Hidalgo, 1887) La Laguna Estigia (Hidalgo, 1887)

Sculptures	The Kiss (Rodin, 1882) The Thinker (Rodin, 1904) The Gates of Hell (Rodin, 1917)

Architecture	Danteum (Terragni, 1938)

Modern music	Inferno (1973 album) "Dante's Inferno" (1995 song) Dante XXI (2006 album) Venus Doom (2007 album) A Place Where the Sun Is Silent (2011 album)

Film	L'Inferno (1911) Dante's Inferno (1924) Dante's Inferno (1935) The Dante Quartet (1987) A TV Dante (1989) Dante's Inferno (2007) Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010) Dante's Inferno Animated (2010)

Literature	The Story of Rimini (1816) La Comédie humaine (1830–1850) Earth Inferno (1905) The Cantos (1917–1962) As I Was Going Down Sackville Street (1937) Demon Lord Dante (1971) Inferno (1976) The Dante Club (2003) Jimbo's Inferno (2006) Inferno (2013)

Video games	Tamashii no Mon (1994) Devil May Cry series (2001) Bayonetta (2009) Dante's Inferno (2010) The Lost (cancelled)

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Category:The Divine Comedy
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