After they've all given birth, ten Leningrad women swap stories among themselves in the maternity ward, ten quarantined days of what they agree to structure as a Boccaccio-like Decameron. The stories, categorically, are of First Love, Seduced and Abandoned, Sex in Farcical Situations, Bitches, Infidelity and Jealousy, Rapists and Their Victims, Money, Revenge. The author, who was a founder of the first independent women's group in the USSR, was imprisoned and then exiled for her social and literary activities. Like Boccacio's famous Florentines, Julia Voznesenskaya's Russian women are cunning and savvy—about all facets of the Soviet system. They know how to beat it and how to endure/5(5). This book, inspired by the classic The Decameron by Boccaccio, is set in modern-day Russia ('s). Ten Russian women, including a shipyard worker, an engineer, a music teacher and others, are quarantined for 10 days in a Leningrad clinic after giving birth/5.
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The Women's Decameron Best Read || [Julia Voznesenskaya W.B. Linton], The Women's Decameron, Julia Voznesenskaya W.B. Linton, The Women s Decameron Like Boccacio s famous Florentines Julia Voznesenskaya s Russian women are cunning and savvy about all facets of the Soviet system They know how to beat it and how to endure Quarantined in a Leningrad maternity ward after giving birth ten women. Julia Nikolayevna Voznesenskaya (Russian: Юлия Николаевна Вознесенская), born on 14 September in Leningrad, is a Russian author of books with an Orthodox Christian worldview. In Voznesenskaya was sentenced to four years of exile for Anti-Soviet Propaganda. In she emigrated to Germany. In she lived in Lesninsky Russian Orthodox Convent in Chauvincourt-Provemont, Normandy, France. The Women's Decameron takes Boccaccio's idea of storytelling in a time of plague, and shifts it to the Soviet Union. Ten women share their experiences. The quality of their stories is uneven, but the composite picture is fascinating.
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