Our Daily Bread. Its Cultural and Religious Significance throughout History

Par : Predrag Matvejević, Christina Pribichevich-Zoric
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  • Nombre de pages140
  • FormatePub
  • ISBN978-1-912545-11-7
  • EAN9781912545117
  • Date de parution06/10/2020
  • Protection num.Adobe DRM
  • Taille4 Mo
  • Infos supplémentairesepub
  • ÉditeurIstros Books

Résumé

Our Daily Bread charmingly weaves together the customs, rituals, anecdotes, legends and sayings that tell the story of bread, from Mesopotamia, through Egypt, to the Far East, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, and the New World. Matvejevic shows how bread is depicted in literature and art (with beautiful illustrations) and examines especially closely the role of bread in the major world religions, drawing from the Bible, Talmud and Quran, but also at various apocryphal texts. In his seventh and last chapter, his narrative moves to the personal, explaining what motivated him to write this book; the lean years of his childhood during World War II and his father's detention in a German concentration camp.
Warning about the pending threat of hunger in the "developed world, " the book fittingly ends with a quote from the Russian anarchist Pyotr Kropotkin: "The question of bread must take precedence over all other questions."

A propos de Predrag Matvejević

Predrag Matvejevic (7 October 1932 - 2 February 2017) was a Yugoslav writer and scholar. A literature scholar who taught at universities in Zagreb, Paris and Rome, he is best known for his 1987 non-fiction book Mediterranean: A Cultural Landscape, a seminal work of cultural history of the Mediterranean region which has been translated into more than 20 languages. Throughout his long academic career, he taught Slavic literature at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle from 1991 to 1994 and then moved on to the Sapienza University of Rome until 2007.
Selected works in English:Sarajevo (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998) Mediterranean: A Cultural Landscape (University of California Press, 2000). The Other Venice: Secrets of the City (Reaktion Books 2007).
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