For 10 points, name this writer of The Periodic Table and
This author wrote about attempts to stealthily cut handkerchiefs out of shirts before those shirts are taken away to be replaced, in a chapter that also describes an "Exchange Market" involving trading Mahorca tobacco for bread. This author described a correspondence with a man from his past named Mülller, which grew out of letters complaining about defective varnish. In one work, he described nurses in an infirmary ward called Ka-Be confiscating spoons from the ill and selling them for profit. He narrates his attempt to recite from memory the (*) Ulysses episode from Dante's Inferno while fetching soup with a man to whom he's giving a language lesson in that work, which includes the chapter "The Drowned and the Saved". Another book by him contains chapters analogizing autobiographical episodes to chemical elements like "Argon". For 10 points, name this writer of The Periodic Table and If This Is a Man, an Italian writer known for his Holocaust memoirs.
This author wrote about attempts to stealthily cut handkerchiefs out of shirts before those shirts are taken away to be replaced, in a chapter that also describes an "Exchange Market" involving trading Mahorca tobacco for bread.
Primo Levi