Summary
Mario Vargas Llosa: The Plague Stories
The Plague Stories are also inspired by the immortal stories of the universal Florentine work. This play does not aim to be a theatrical adaptation of the Decameron, because staging and dramatizing the hundreds of stories from Boccaccio's book would be an impossible, and in any case unfeasible, feat. This is a very free version, in a smaller format, of a work that uses as its starting point an essential fact from the Decameron - the escape of a group of people into an imaginary world to escape a plague that ravages their environment and is built on it by a narrative made up of stories that contrast fictional reality with the real world, usurping the real lives of its protagonists, simultaneously rescuing them from the greatest calamity of the human race: disappearance or extermination...
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