How fiction can help us navigate the pandemic: the Decameron and the Black Death. 02/07/2020
Article
2020
1-8
epidemic disease ; literature ; social climate
Social sciences
https://booksandideas.net/How-Fiction-Can-Help-Us-Navigate-the-Pandemic.html
English
"During the Black Plague, Boccaccio's Decameron provided readers ways to laugh through the pandemic. A few centuries later, a new kind of pandemic strikes: with Covid-19, the world as we knew it seems forever changed. Can fiction help us imagine new ways of existing together in times of uncertainty?"
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