In these weeks of global crisis due to the coronavirus, sales have risen. Reviews of the classics and other books about pandemics and other disasters that have devastated the world have skyrocketed.
Cyclical disasters that have decimated Humanity throughout history have been the source of inspiration for other great literary stories.
This is a list of these books:
El Decamerón — Giovanni Boccaccio
Diario del año de la peste — Daniel Defoe
La máscara de la muerte roja — Edgar Allan Poe
La peste — Albert Camus
Ensayo sobre la ceguera — José Saramago
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