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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... foreign background . They are aware of the foreign stage set whether they like it or not . Ordinary exiles often become artists of their lives , re- making themselves and their second homes with great ingenuity . Inability to re- turn ...
... foreign background . They are aware of the foreign stage set whether they like it or not . Ordinary exiles often become artists of their lives , re- making themselves and their second homes with great ingenuity . Inability to re- turn ...
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... foreign . The émigré experiences the new regime in his own body , becoming an uncanny stranger to himself , a " semiphantom in a light foreign suit . " He sees himself from the viewpoint of a domestic spy or some local KGB agent and ...
... foreign . The émigré experiences the new regime in his own body , becoming an uncanny stranger to himself , a " semiphantom in a light foreign suit . " He sees himself from the viewpoint of a domestic spy or some local KGB agent and ...
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... foreign language that Brodsky was able to offer his parents an escape from their Soviet fate : I write this in English because I want to grant them a margin of freedom : the mar- gin whose width depends on the number of those who may be ...
... foreign language that Brodsky was able to offer his parents an escape from their Soviet fate : I write this in English because I want to grant them a margin of freedom : the mar- gin whose width depends on the number of those who may be ...
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PART 2 | 73 |
Moscow the Russian Rome | 91 |
Joseph Brodskys Room and a Half | 285 |
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