FLAVOURS OF SELF, HISTORY AND SOCIETY IN THE BOOK OF WHISPERS AND WASTED MORNING
FLAVOURS OF SELF, HISTORY AND SOCIETY IN THE BOOK OF WHISPERS AND WASTED MORNING

Summary/Abstract: According to Lévy-Strauss, cuisine forms a language in which each society codes messages through which it unconsciously reveals its structure. Regional food bears the mark of neighbouring influences while for migrants food may be a discourse of the past and a nostalgic narrative about one’s native place. Food practices are linked to our earliest childhood, to the maternal world (Bourdieu), as we see in Vosganian’s novel The Book of Whispers, to social stratification, as in Adameşteanu’s Wasted Morning, to identity and adaptation (in both). Our paper focuses on ways food practices can be read in works of contemporary Romanian writers who use them to build their fictional universe and desired atmosphere, allowing readers to engage with the characters and their cultural backgrounds on a sensory and emotional level.

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