'Zekameron' comes from 'Zek' meaning prisoner and is a word-play on
Boccaccio's Decameron. 'He came back from interrogation looking
like death. Some people look better than he did when they're being
put in their coffin. "What happened then? Did they stick any other
articles of the Criminal Code on you? Or break your jaw?" "Nothing
like that. I've got toothache..." The 100 tales in Zekameron are
based on the 14th Century Decameron, but Znak is closer to Beckett
than to Boccaccio. Banality and brutality vie with the human
ability to overcome oppression. Znak's stories in different voices
chart 100 days in prison in Belarus today. The tone is laconic,
ironic; the humour sparse. The stories bear witness to resistance
and self-assertion and the genuine warmth and appreciation of
fellow prisoners.
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