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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... writers and artists whose friendship inspired me as much as their work: Maya Turovskaya, Dubravka Ugrešic, Ilya Kabakov, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid. I am grateful to my colleagues, scholars and friends who read portions of the ...
... writers and artists whose friendship inspired me as much as their work: Maya Turovskaya, Dubravka Ugrešic, Ilya Kabakov, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid. I am grateful to my colleagues, scholars and friends who read portions of the ...
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... writers and thinkers at the time raised the question of whether progress can ever be simultaneous in all spheres of human experience. Friedrich Schlegel wrote: “The real problem of history is the inequality of progress in the various ...
... writers and thinkers at the time raised the question of whether progress can ever be simultaneous in all spheres of human experience. Friedrich Schlegel wrote: “The real problem of history is the inequality of progress in the various ...
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... memory. In the Russian nineteenthcentury tradition it is the writer and peasant who become carriers of the national dream, while in the American case the entrepreneur and cowboy From Cured Soldiers to Incurable Romantics.
... memory. In the Russian nineteenthcentury tradition it is the writer and peasant who become carriers of the national dream, while in the American case the entrepreneur and cowboy From Cured Soldiers to Incurable Romantics.
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... writers come from places where art, while not marketable, continued to play an important social role and where modernity developed in counterpoint to that ofWestern Europe and the United States, from Rio de Janeiro to Prague. Russian writer ...
... writers come from places where art, while not marketable, continued to play an important social role and where modernity developed in counterpoint to that ofWestern Europe and the United States, from Rio de Janeiro to Prague. Russian writer ...
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... writer's tombstone in Port Bou, Spain, in a seaside Catholic cemetery enjoying a panoramic view of the Pyrenees.26 In fact, this is not really a tombstone but a memorial to the writer whose grave remains unmarked. Benjamin, a German ...
... writer's tombstone in Port Bou, Spain, in a seaside Catholic cemetery enjoying a panoramic view of the Pyrenees.26 In fact, this is not really a tombstone but a memorial to the writer whose grave remains unmarked. Benjamin, a German ...
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