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Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise.(Brief article)(Book review)

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* Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise

Seymour Chwast. Bloomsbury, $20 (128p) ISBN 978-1-60819-084-3

Famed artist and graphic designer Chwast has turned his talents to the graphic novel form for the first time, and we can all be happy about it. In a highly compressed version of Dante's Divine Comedy, Chwast takes us on a whirlwind tour of hell, purgatory, and heaven. With his signature mix of humor, artistry, and high-level design, he conveys a breathtaking amount of information in clear black and white line drawings. One graph illustrates "reasons for different levels of punishment," with sins ranging from "no self-control" …

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