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Zaretsky, Robert, 1955- author.
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Plague in literature.
Epidemics in literature.
European literature -- History and criticism.
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Social aspects.
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Victories never last...
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Victories never last : reading and caregiving in a time of plague / Robert Zaretsky.
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Zaretsky, Robert, 1955- author.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Subjects
Plague in literature.
Epidemics in literature.
European literature -- History and criticism.
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Social aspects.
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9780226803494 (hardback) :
022680349X
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pages ; cm
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Thucydides and the great plague of Athens -- Marcus Aurelius and the Antonine Plague -- Michel de Montaigne and the bubonic plague -- Daniel Defoe and the great plague of London -- Albert Camus and la peste brune -- Epilogue: from the last man to the first man.
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"We are far from knowing how and when the present pandemic will end, nor can we know what will be the most enduring stories that writers tell about it. We can, however, turn for guidance to earlier writers who confronted past plagues. Robert Zaretsky spent much of the past year working as a volunteer in a nursing home in south Texas, tending to residents isolated by Covid-19. When not at work, he turned to great novelists, essayists, and historians of the past to help him make sense of everyday, yet often extraordinary experiences at the residence. In this book, Zaretsky adroitly weaves his reflections on the pandemic siege of his nursing home with the experiences of six major writers during their own times of plague: Thucydides, Marcus Aurelius, Michel de Montaigne, Daniel Defoe, Mary Shelley, and Albert Camus. Each of these enduring authors knew mass death firsthand. Thucydides survived the great plague that swept through Athens from 430 to 429 BCE and described it in his History of the Peloponnesian War. Marcus Aurelius was Rome's emperor during the Antonine Plague that raged from 165 to 180 CE. Montaigne was the mayor of Bordeaux when, in 1585, it was battered by the bubonic plague, and several of his greatest essays are marked by that experience. Defoe was, of course, the author of Journal of a Plague Year, which in turn influenced both Mary Shelley in her apocalyptic novel The Last Man and Albert Camus in The Plague. Zaretsky layers accessible discussions of these authors with his own experience of the tragedy that slowly enveloped his Texas nursing home-a tragedy that first took the form of chronic loneliness and then, inevitably, the deaths of many residents whom Zaretsky cared for and whom we come to know. The result is an indelible work of witness and a tribute to the consoling powers of great literature"--
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