According to a popular Paris bookstore that publishes “Ulysses”, the coronavirus is begging for help amid the epidemic. Associated Press.
According to Newswire, the shop, Shakespeare & Company, encouraging customers to buy a book last week, said they were having a “difficult time” in the spring due to France’s coronavirus lockdown.
In response, the store received over 1,000 online orders a week, a large increase from the usual rate of about 100 per week.
“We’ve been down 80% since the first captivity in March, so at the moment we’ve used up all our savings,” Sylvia Whitman, daughter of the late proprietor George Whitman, told the AP.
According to the AP, Whiteman also set up the Friends Shaf Shakespeare Company Fund where supporters can donate.
France, like many of its European neighbors, has been devastated by the coronavirus.
French President Emmanuel Macron
Emanuel Jean-Michel Macron has raised the threat level of terror in France following the attack, and Austrian schools have reopened for the first time in France since a teacher killed and injured a priest in France, two days after a knife attack on a church. Announced last Wednesday That the nation will go through another phase due to increasing cases of coronavirus. The downfall will see the closure of unnecessary businesses such as restaurants and bars, and people will only be allowed to leave their homes for necessary work or medical reasons.
However, unlike the first lockdown held in the spring, schools will remain open, and workers can go to their workplace if they cannot work from home.
In late October, the World Health Organization declared Europe Center After the corovirus epidemic, it reached the record of confirmed cases of COVID-19.
“Europe is once again at the center of this epidemic,” said Hans Klug, the WHO’s European regional director, at a meeting with European health ministers per AP. “At the risk of audible noise, I should express our very real concern.”
Shakespeare and Company were founded in 1919 by Sylvia Beach, according to the AP, and James Joyce’s Ulysses was published in full in 1922.
He faced economic hardship before the epidemic due to terrorist attacks and protests, which kept out-of-town tourists out of the area.
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