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
... 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 , an exemplary Soviet construction site . A ...
... 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 , an exemplary Soviet construction site . A ...
Side xv
... native city . Phantoms of familiar faces and facades , the smell of frying cutlets in the cluttered kitchen , a scent of urine and swamps in the deca- dent hallways , a gray drizzle over the Neva River , the rubble of recognition — it ...
... native city . Phantoms of familiar faces and facades , the smell of frying cutlets in the cluttered kitchen , a scent of urine and swamps in the deca- dent hallways , a gray drizzle over the Neva River , the rubble of recognition — it ...
Side 3
... native land . " ( Hofer also suggested nosomania and philopatridomania to describe the same symptoms ; luckily , the latter failed to enter common parlance . ) Contrary to our intuition , nostalgia came from medicine , not from poetry ...
... native land . " ( Hofer also suggested nosomania and philopatridomania to describe the same symptoms ; luckily , the latter failed to enter common parlance . ) Contrary to our intuition , nostalgia came from medicine , not from poetry ...
Side 4
... native land in the mind . " Longing for home exhausted the " vital spirits , " causing nausea , loss of appetite , pathological changes in the lungs , brain inflammation , cardiac ar- rests , high fever , as well as marasmus and a ...
... native land in the mind . " Longing for home exhausted the " vital spirits , " causing nausea , loss of appetite , pathological changes in the lungs , brain inflammation , cardiac ar- rests , high fever , as well as marasmus and a ...
Side 5
... native and foreign nostalgia . The au- topsies performed on the French soldiers who perished in the proverbial Russian snow during the miserable retreat of the Napoleonic Army from Moscow re- vealed that many of them had brain ...
... native and foreign nostalgia . The au- topsies performed on the French soldiers who perished in the proverbial Russian snow during the miserable retreat of the Napoleonic Army from Moscow re- vealed that many of them had brain ...
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