The Future Of NostalgiaBasic Books, 21. mar. 2001 - 432 sider Can one be nostalgic for the home one never had? Why is it that the age of globalization is accompanied by a no less global epidemic of nostalgia? Can we know what we are nostalgic for? In the seventeenth century, Swiss doctors believed that opium, leeches, and a trek through the Alps would cure nostalgia. In 1733 a Russian commander, disgusted with the debilitating homesickness rampant among his troops, buried a soldier alive as a deterrent to nostalgia. In her new book, Svetlana Boym develops a comprehensive approach to this elusive ailment. Combining personal memoir, philosophical essay, and historical analysis, Boym explores the spaces of collective nostalgia that connect national biography and personal self-fashioning in the twenty-first century. She guides us through the ruins and construction sites of post-communist cities-St. Petersburg, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague-and the imagined homelands of exiles-Benjamin, Nabokov, Mandelstam, and Brodsky. From Jurassic Park to the Totalitarian Sculpture Garden, from love letters on Kafka's grave to conversations with Hitler's impersonator, Boym unravels the threads of this global epidemic of longing and its antidotes. |
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... Bronze Horseman came alive , it was a bad sign . In Pushkin's long poem " The Bronze Horseman " the " little man " Evgeny , an ordinary city dweller , loses his beloved in a great flood and dares to challenge the Bronze Horseman , a ...
... Bronze Horseman came alive , it was a bad sign . In Pushkin's long poem " The Bronze Horseman " the " little man " Evgeny , an ordinary city dweller , loses his beloved in a great flood and dares to challenge the Bronze Horseman , a ...
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... Bronze Horseman itself was the famous " thunder - rock , " a magic stone of the local Izhora and Finnish people . In Pushkin's Bronze Horseman there is only a lonely hut there on the Neva swamps , a “ refuge of a miserable Finn ...
... Bronze Horseman itself was the famous " thunder - rock , " a magic stone of the local Izhora and Finnish people . In Pushkin's Bronze Horseman there is only a lonely hut there on the Neva swamps , a “ refuge of a miserable Finn ...
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... Bronze Horseman turned into the horseman of the apocalypse heralding the end of St. Petersburg . Some saw the October revolution as a fulfillment of this predicament and the death of the city . Poet Innokenty Annensky wrote that the ...
... Bronze Horseman turned into the horseman of the apocalypse heralding the end of St. Petersburg . Some saw the October revolution as a fulfillment of this predicament and the death of the city . Poet Innokenty Annensky wrote that the ...
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PART 2 | 73 |
Moscow the Russian Rome | 91 |
Joseph Brodskys Room and a Half | 285 |
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