Dekameron, bind 1

by Giovanni Boccaccio, Thomas Harder (Translator)

Dette flotte tobindsværk er den italienske renæssanceforfatter Giovanni Boccaccios berømte fortællekreds "Dekameron", her i Thomas Harders nyoversættelse fra 2019.

Fortællingen i “Dekameron” udspiller sig i året 1348, hvor fem unge kvinder og fem unge mænd flygter fra pesten, der har nået Firenze, og flytter sammen ind på et provinsielt landsted. Som underholdning - og for at holde humøret højt - skiftes de ti mennesker over ti dage til at fortælle historier. Resultatet er 100 spændende fortællinger, som Giovanni Boccaccio på smukkeste vis udfolder i sine noveller. Fortællingerne centrerer sig om menneskelig dårskab og vid, der spænder fra det humoristiske og erotiske til det tragiske og det dramatiske.
Boccaccios "Dekameron", der af mange anses for at være litteraturhistoriens første novellesamling eller novellegenrens udspring, er fyldt til bristepunktet med gode historier, der stadig er sjove, overraskende og fascinerende mere end 600 år efter.

Denne udgave indeholder en dybdegående introduktion til Giovanni Boccaccios (1313-1375) liv og levned, en analyse af hans bog "Dekameron" og interessante informationer om oversættelsen.

638 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2019

About the author

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist in his own right and author of a number of notable works including the Decameron, On Famous Women, and his poetry in the Italian vernacular. Boccaccio is particularly notable for his dialogue, of which it has been said that it surpasses in verisimilitude that of just about all of his contemporaries, since they were medieval writers and often followed formulaic models for character and plot.

Reviews

[Jacob Hoffmann-Petersen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interessant gensyn med Boccaccio efter 30 år. En af novellerne var vist pensum i gymnasiet.
Stilen er naturligt meget anderledes end den som anvendes i dag, men sjove, besynderlige, samfundskritiske og overvejende frække noveller.
Findes på dansk som lydbog, der er indtalt af dygtige skuespillere. Absolut tiden værd. Kan bides op i mindre bidder!

[Charlotte · Rating 3 out of 5]

Entertaining short stories preaching adultery.

To anyone who’s had experience of such matters, there’s no sorrow to compare with that of having wasted your opportunities. After all, what the devil are we women fit for in our old age except to sit round the fire and stare at the ashes? No woman can know this better than I, or prove it to you more convincingly. Now that I am old, my heart bleeds when I look back and consider the opportunities I allowed to go to waste. Mind you, I didn’t waste all of them – I wouldn’t want you to think I was a half-wit – but all the same I didn’t do as much as I should have done. And God knows what agony it is to see myself reduced now to this sorry state, and realize that if I wanted to light a fire, I couldn’t find anyone to lend me a poker.