The Future of NostalgiaBasic Books, 5. aug. 2008 - 352 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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Side xvi
... Eastern Europe were accompanied by political and cultural manifestations of longing . In France it is not only the ancien regime that produced revolution , but in some respect the revolution produced the ancien regime , giving it a ...
... Eastern Europe were accompanied by political and cultural manifestations of longing . In France it is not only the ancien regime that produced revolution , but in some respect the revolution produced the ancien regime , giving it a ...
Side xvii
... Eastern Europe to Latin America ) as well as for many displaced people from all over the world , creative rethinking of nos- talgia was not merely an artistic device but a strategy of survival , a way of making sense of the ...
... Eastern Europe to Latin America ) as well as for many displaced people from all over the world , creative rethinking of nos- talgia was not merely an artistic device but a strategy of survival , a way of making sense of the ...
Side xix
... Eastern ” attitude used to be more romantic : the relationship with Europe was conceived as a love affair with all its possible variations from unrequited love to autoeroticism . Not euros but eros dominated the metaphors for the East ...
... Eastern ” attitude used to be more romantic : the relationship with Europe was conceived as a love affair with all its possible variations from unrequited love to autoeroticism . Not euros but eros dominated the metaphors for the East ...
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... east of Western Europe as " semi - civilized ” or outright " barbarous . " Instead of coevalness of different conceptions of time , each local culture therefore was evaluated with regard to the central narrative of progress . Progress ...
... east of Western Europe as " semi - civilized ” or outright " barbarous . " Instead of coevalness of different conceptions of time , each local culture therefore was evaluated with regard to the central narrative of progress . Progress ...
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... eastern land , that languishes lonely and silent 31 upon the scorching sand.31 The solitary northern spruce dreams about his nostalgic soulmate and an- tipode the southern palm . This is not a comforting national love affair . The two ...
... eastern land , that languishes lonely and silent 31 upon the scorching sand.31 The solitary northern spruce dreams about his nostalgic soulmate and an- tipode the southern palm . This is not a comforting national love affair . The two ...
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