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 xiii
... borders , a couple from Germany went to visit the native city of their parents , Königsberg , for the first time . Once a bastion of medieval Teutonic knights , Königsberg during the postwar years had been transformed into Kali- ningrad ...
... borders , a couple from Germany went to visit the native city of their parents , Königsberg , for the first time . Once a bastion of medieval Teutonic knights , Königsberg during the postwar years had been transformed into Kali- ningrad ...
Side xv
... border that I would never be able to return . So nostalgia seemed like a waste of time and an unaffordable luxury . I had only just learned to answer the question “ how are you ? ” with an efficient “ fine ” instead of the Russian ...
... border that I would never be able to return . So nostalgia seemed like a waste of time and an unaffordable luxury . I had only just learned to answer the question “ how are you ? ” with an efficient “ fine ” instead of the Russian ...
Side 7
... border crossing and immigration to describe the discourse on nostalgia.11 Nostalgia was diagnosed at a time when art and science had not yet entirely severed their umbilical ties and when the mind and body—internal and external well ...
... border crossing and immigration to describe the discourse on nostalgia.11 Nostalgia was diagnosed at a time when art and science had not yet entirely severed their umbilical ties and when the mind and body—internal and external well ...
Side 8
... borders and values ; it could be a secu- lar expression of a spiritual longing , a nostalgia for an absolute , a home that is both physical and spiritual , the edenic unity of time and before entry into history . The nostalgic is ...
... borders and values ; it could be a secu- lar expression of a spiritual longing , a nostalgia for an absolute , a home that is both physical and spiritual , the edenic unity of time and before entry into history . The nostalgic is ...
Side 31
... border in 1940 when his passage into safety was de- nied . He once ironically referred to himself as " the last European , ” incapable of emigrating to the promised land ( be it Palestine or the United States ) . " Why are you looking ...
... border in 1940 when his passage into safety was de- nied . He once ironically referred to himself as " the last European , ” incapable of emigrating to the promised land ( be it Palestine or the United States ) . " Why are you looking ...
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