The literature of epidemics is written not so much to signal the end of civilisation, but the end of a particular way of life
In Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron, seven women and three men take turns telling stories for 10 days while hiding from the Black Death — that “last Pestilentiall mortality universally hurtfull to all that beheld it”. In a crushing indictment of how little things have changed since 1655, Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year recorded how Londoners lost their wits when the pestilence came to their city.
The literature of epidemics, we now know, is written not so much to signal the end of civilisation, but the end of a particular way of life. It’s a response to tragedy that provides ways for absorbing trauma...A subscription helps you enjoy the best of our business content every day along with benefits such as articles from our international business news partners; ProfileData financial data; and digital access to the Sunday Times and Sunday Times Daily.
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