{"id":1458,"date":"2020-03-11T03:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T03:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2020-03-20T15:32:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T15:32:53","slug":"classics-for-the-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/classics-for-the-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Classics for the Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Literature has long been a way for people to work through unsettling events &#8212; and epidemics are no exception!\u00a0 Here are some of the classics, for the historically inclined.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll notice this is a rather international collection; epidemics cross borders constantly, and so do the texts about them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boccaccio, <em>The Decameron<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nSometimes called &#8220;The Human Comedy,&#8221;\u00a0<em>The Decameron<\/em> is collection of stories supposedly told by a group of young people taking shelter outside Florence from the Black Death.\u00a0 It&#8217;s one of the foundational works of modern European literature &#8212; a precursor to Chaucer&#8217;s <em>Canterbury Tales<\/em>!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>read ebook in the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/storiesboccacci00boccgoog\/page\/n12\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Internet Archive<\/a><\/li>\n<li>find ebook in RUL:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2wQzkM7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">volume 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/335AwaI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">volume 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li>download\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/librivox.org\/the-decameron-by-giovanni-boccaccio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">audiobook from Librivox<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Daniel Defoe, <em>A Journal of the Plague Year<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nIn 1722, when Daniel Defoe published this supposed &#8220;diary&#8221; of a survivor of the 1665 plague, it&#8217;s not clear whether audiences understood it to be fact or fiction.\u00a0 Defoe&#8217;s first-person narrator switches back and forth between his own experience of terror and the official documents of the death count (the &#8220;bills of mortality&#8221;) in an attempt to capture the reality of a menace that seems to be everywhere and nowhere at once.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>download the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/journal_of_the_plague_year_librivox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Librivox recording<\/a> from the Internet Archive<\/li>\n<li>read <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/339n2L5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ebook from RUL<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Albert Camus,\u00a0<em>The Plague<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1470\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1470\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1470 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2020\/03\/443BC012-831F-4202-8E79-FBD162511EBF-300x179.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2020\/03\/443BC012-831F-4202-8E79-FBD162511EBF-300x179.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2020\/03\/443BC012-831F-4202-8E79-FBD162511EBF-768x460.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2020\/03\/443BC012-831F-4202-8E79-FBD162511EBF-1024x613.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2020\/03\/443BC012-831F-4202-8E79-FBD162511EBF.jpeg 1302w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1470\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edistat tweet, March 2, 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>All of French-Algerian writer Albert Camus&#8217; works fall somewhere on a continuum between narrative and philosophy.\u00a0 His novel about an epidemic in the city of Oran offers commentary on the human condition, and has been flying off the shelves of French bookstores in recent weeks!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>borrow <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2ICiovO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">print from RUL<\/a><\/li>\n<li>join waitlist to borrow ebook from the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/plague00camu_khb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Internet Archive<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Gabriel Garcia Marquez, <em>Love in the Time of Cholera<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s right there in the title!\u00a0 If you want to get truly lost in a novel over the break, Marquez creates sprawling stories in richly imagined worlds &#8212; Spanish speakers should consider reading the original to get a full taste of his extraordinary style.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>borrow ebook from the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/loveintimeofchol00garc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Internet Archive<\/a><\/li>\n<li>borrow <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Lv8PAT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">print from RUL<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Margaret Atwood,\u00a0<em>Oryx and Crake<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nCanadian sci-fi author Margaret Atwood, famous for\u00a0<em>The Handmaid<\/em><em>&#8216;s Tale<\/em>, imagines a funhouse-mirror version of our own technological world &#8212; 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