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Florence 1348th A devastating plague forces the once proud city in the knee. Who has not taken away, and quickly ran away. Including seven young ladies and three young men who escape from the joint auspicious of mischief confinement of the city and exchanged views on the ever-present death and illness from now against the as yet untouched idyll of the surrounding Tuscan estates do. Having recently arrived, in addition to all sorts of other amusements and very soon provided the necessary Kurzweil: From now on, every day in turns amusing tales of all kinds, in each case subject to a pre-determined, free theme, are given for the best. What follows is a fictional background story embedded in those, enjoyable round of a hundred humorous, sometimes macabre and obscene short stories, which are now considered one of the most important collections of medieval, vernacular short prose texts at all.
addition to its outstanding significance for the study of literature knows often referred to as a seminal influence amendment cycle but still come up with very different qualities.
Contrary to all reservations, which are a literary work of the 14th Century compared to cherish, like, we are dealing here not only with a little uptight and old-fashioned piece of dusty, professorial light reading, but rather with a virtuoso of Boccaccio in the most saturated colors colored fresco of sensuality and love of life that unfolds before the eye of the reader in an overwhelming abundance and vitality. It is teeming with quirky, lascivious shapes and modest, bashful ladies to their supposed chastity is not the end but then ordered for the best. It is loved passionately, fervently hated, suffered deceived and misled shameless, nasty rivals will be made without hesitation and remorse of killing off while actually are embarrassed respectable wives for no matter how great brazen method to coat their stolid husband's horns. The hypocrisy of the clergy gets', eg in the form of instinctual Friar Alberto, who have sexual intercourse the simple-minded Lisetta surreptitiously by himself as an angel Gabriel spends away from her well-deserved grease.
Despite all that vulgarity and sometimes almost pornographic seeming coarseness Boccaccio yet always manages to temper his vulgar burlesque tone and refine by a fine proportioned breeze thanks to irony and unerring flair for slapstick again most excellent.
Especially in contrast to the conventional narrative of medieval art, such as the high medieval courtly epics and works of the most prudish, anemic and stereotyped figure drawing presented by Boccaccio delicate and bold composition as a special feature.
the readers of today might, however, the long term something monotonous overall structure of the short story collection, and on a slight modification of resistant repetitive input formulas, that make use of the fictional narrator and the narrator inside time after time again, disturbing. Also like in some places too scrolled and stilted language does not correspond to everyone's taste. In addition, the many artful variations prevent it from progressing number not live without exception, that deplete certain recurring motifs noticeably while sometimes leaves a sour aftertaste of the previous systems have already left.
Conclusion:
Boccaccio Decameron is a very respectable, literary work of art for connoisseurs. But literature and the curious amateur, who are willing to engage in open mind to the occasional bit antiquated language, despite the aforementioned shortcomings can certainly get their money. May be some passages read something hard, it is ultimately still the 100 entertaining and for the 14th Century unusually blunt stories that a fully compensate for the applied efforts. Whoever thought up to now, the Middle Ages had been a buttoned, unusually frigid period of history, here, at least proved wrong.
4 out of 5 stars.
Teresa Maienschein
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