Книга "Новый Декамерон" описывает множество историй, которые рассказывались с древности до наших дней. Автор, сборник рассказов, принес в книгу все фантазии и истории различных авторов. От Микельсен до Джонса, от Кушнера до Этгарда, рассказы и повести сплетаются воедино, создавая портрет мира, который был полным абсурда. Читатель найдет для себя множество историй для просмотра и прочитает о многих удивительных событиях, произошедших прямо перед глазами людей.
Even if the whole world is absurd, a good book will not make you go crazy.
People have been telling stories since the beginning of time. They tell about what they have seen and heard. They talk about what was and could be. Stories are told to distract yourself, pass the time or survive difficult times. Sometimes such stories turn into chronicles, annals, monuments to certain periods and epochs. Thus, "Tales of a Thousand and One Nights", "Canterbury Tales" and "Decameron" by Boccaccio appeared.
"The New Decameron" is also a kind of monument to an era that absolutely definitely goes down in history. The editors of The New Yorker magazine collected 29 novels, essays, tales, tiny sketches and extended reflections. In them, the world's most famous contemporary writers have tried to capture and comprehend the events that have engulfed every corner of the world.
The collection includes tales by Margaret Atwood, Colm Tóibín, Layla Slimani, Rachel Kusner, Etgar Keret, David Mitchell, Mona Awad and many others.
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