ЛИТЕРАТУРНИТЕ ДЕЛА И ЕПИДЕМИИТЕ
LITERARY WORKS AND EPIDEMIES

Summary/Abstract: The motivation for this paper is the Coronavirus pandemic (also known as COVID-19), against which the entire population of the planet Earth fights. After its outbreak, almost everyone wondered if this was really possible, in the 21st century. At the same time science has no answers to the many questions arising daily in the fight against the unknown virus. From the measures taken, globalization has gone into isolation /self-isolation, mass gatherings have been replaced by social distance, and daily trips have been reduced to “Stay Home.” All borders have been closed, and land, sea and air transportation has been seriously limited. The atmosphere in which we lived: in the global race for money, global warming, the decline in moral and ethical values and for humans and for nature has taken its toll. Epidemics, because of which thousands of people have lost their lives, were not unknown in the past. In the treasury of literary works, there are works in which the struggle, the sufferings of the people in the past that we thought could not happen to us today are described. The descriptions of those past events fully coincide with what is happening today in the work of Thucydides, Boccaccio, Shakespeare, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Pips, Alessandro Manzoni, Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Mann, Albert Ralph Camus, Borislav Pislav, Dean R Koontz, Michael Crichton, Niccolò Ammaniti and of course the edition that has recently been published these days by the author Paolo Giordano.

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