The Decameron: Stories for the Time of Coronavirus

The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic

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"The Decameron: Stories for the Time of Coronavirus" is a collection of stories written during the COVID-19 period by 29 well-known contemporary writers invited by The New York Times, inspired by Boccaccio's "The Decameron".

The Decameron, written by the Renaissance Florentine writer Boccaccio and completed in 1353, is set during the Black Death. It tells the story of seven women and three men who fled the plague to the hills outside Florence. To pass the time and the monotony of their isolated lives, they decided to each take a turn telling a story each day. Ten days passed, and the hundred stories were finally told. This is the Decameron.

In 2020, as COVID-19 raged across the globe, The New York Times Magazine commissioned "The Decameron" as its theme, inviting 29 writers to contribute short stories about the pandemic of our time. Themes ranged from love and death to aging and everyday life. Focusing not only on the pandemic itself, the book's central theme suggests that, at a time when the world has been put on pause, knowledge and perspective may not be as important as they once were. The experiences and feelings of life itself are far more crucial, and perhaps only fiction can capture these insights.

2023-08-01

湖南文艺出版社

Pu Rui Culture

368

9787572612466