Facing a pandemic virus, which was an unfamiliar experience for most people in the world, how has it changed our lives and our view of the world and the future? Lily Nikunazar, who is a freelance journalist and PhD student in cultural studies, has discussed with experts in a series of podcasts about the general effects of Corona on our lives today. The imagination of a deadly epidemic virus is one of the frequent themes of literature and cinema.
Writers have imagined the end of the world for a long time, and viruses, spaces, zombies, sudden madness, overnight blindness, the sudden disappearance of the inhabitants of a city, or the overnight loss of a sense of the six senses have been the reasons for creating and writing. Corona has put us in the apocalyptic mood of a stretchy science-fiction.
The appearance of an epidemic in the cinema and literature of the world has an old footprint. What narratives and approaches are there about the hypothetical pandemic? What does the virus represent in literature and cinema and what does it mean?
In this episode of the “one meter and a half” podcast series, we discussed the topic of literature and virus in a conversation with Razia Ansari, a novelist living in the Czech Republic.
