The Decameron: Stories for the Time of Coronavirus

The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic

"The Decameron: Stories from the Pandemic" is a collection of stories commissioned by The New York Times, inspired by Boccaccio's "The Decameron," and written by 29 contemporary renowned authors during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Written by the Florentine Renaissance writer Boccaccio and completed in 1353, "The Decameron" is set against the backdrop of the Black Death. It tells the story of seven women and three men who flee to a hillside outside Florence to escape the plague. To pass the time and alleviate the boredom of their isolated lives, they decide to take turns telling a story each day. After ten days, one hundred stories have been told, thus completing "The Decameron."
In 2020, as COVID-19 ravaged the globe, The New York Times Magazine took "The Decameron" as its theme and invited 29 writers to create short stories, chronicling the pandemic of our era. The themes cover love, life and death, aging, daily life, and more. Beyond focusing on the pandemic itself, the main idea and intention of this book is that, at a time when the world has been put on pause, all knowledge and opinions may not be as important as the experiences and feelings of life itself, which perhaps only fiction can truly capture.

2023-09-01

湖南文艺出版社

Pu Rui Culture

368

9787572612466