Jenny Davidson
American literary scholar and writer; professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, writing on 18th-century literature, etiquette and culture; Guggenheim Fellow from 2005 to 2006.
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
So A Journal of the Plague Year is a historical novel, and its pretext is that this narrative is a live journal of the epidemic by somebody living through it.
on fivebooks.com · 16 Mar 2020 · Report
Severance by Ling Ma
Severance deservedly got a lot of attention when it came out in 2018.
on fivebooks.com · 16 Mar 2020 · Report
The Decameron by Boccaccio
The Decameron captures the fact that the suspension of normal realities that happens in a tragic situation like a pandemic can, paradoxically, produce a special protected environment for storytelling and its appreciation.
on fivebooks.com · 16 Mar 2020 · Report
The Plague by Albert Camus
Albert Camus’s The Plague probably remains the best-known novel on the topic of epidemic disease.
on fivebooks.com · 16 Mar 2020 · Report
A True Novel by Minae Mizumura
The title on my list that really interestingly exemplifies this is A True Novel.
on fivebooks.com · 14 Feb 2019 · Report
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Howl’s Moving Castle is a story of this caliber.
on fivebooks.com · 14 Feb 2019 · Report
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Persuasion is an unusually brilliant novel, just in terms of its style of narration.
on fivebooks.com · 14 Feb 2019 · Report
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