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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... monument to your own grief and the futility of departure . First - wave immigrants are often notori- ously unsentimental , leaving the search for roots to their children and grandchil- dren unburdened by visa problems . Somehow the ...
... monument to your own grief and the futility of departure . First - wave immigrants are often notori- ously unsentimental , leaving the search for roots to their children and grandchil- dren unburdened by visa problems . Somehow the ...
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... monument to Stalin in Prague supplanted by a disco and a modern sculpture of a metronome to the park of restored totalitarian mon- uments in Moscow ; the Leningrad unofficial bar “ Saigon " recently commemorated as a countercultural ...
... monument to Stalin in Prague supplanted by a disco and a modern sculpture of a metronome to the park of restored totalitarian mon- uments in Moscow ; the Leningrad unofficial bar “ Saigon " recently commemorated as a countercultural ...
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Svetlana Boym. • PART The ruin of a monument and shadow of the author . Photo by Svetlana Boym . FROM CURED SOLDIERS TO INCURABLE ROMANTICS : NOSTALGIA AND PROGRESS. HYPOCHONDRIA OF THE HEART : NOSTALGIA , HISTORY AND MEMORY. 0465007082_01.
Svetlana Boym. • PART The ruin of a monument and shadow of the author . Photo by Svetlana Boym . FROM CURED SOLDIERS TO INCURABLE ROMANTICS : NOSTALGIA AND PROGRESS. HYPOCHONDRIA OF THE HEART : NOSTALGIA , HISTORY AND MEMORY. 0465007082_01.
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... monument to the European exiles in all three languages to avoid international conflict . The work , by Dana Karavan , represents a passageway , Ben- jamin's favorite metaphor ( as in Passage , a nineteenth - century shopping arcade ...
... monument to the European exiles in all three languages to avoid international conflict . The work , by Dana Karavan , represents a passageway , Ben- jamin's favorite metaphor ( as in Passage , a nineteenth - century shopping arcade ...
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... monument . At the turn of the nineteenth century there was a real vogue for the dinosaur fossils that represented new advances in science . The reconstruction of Brontosaurus took place in 1906 and Tyrannosaurus in 1912 , on the eve of ...
... monument . At the turn of the nineteenth century there was a real vogue for the dinosaur fossils that represented new advances in science . The reconstruction of Brontosaurus took place in 1906 and Tyrannosaurus in 1912 , on the eve of ...
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