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The Future of Nostalgia

Svetlana Boym

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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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Basic Books
  • Publish Date: Mar 28th, 2002
  • Pages: 432
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.10in - 5.90in - 1.10in - 1.05lb
  • EAN: 9780465007080
  • Recommended age: 18-UP
  • Categories: • Social History• Modern - 20th Century - General• Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism

About the Author

Svetlana Boym was a writer and Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Harvard. She is the author of Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia and Death in Quotation Marks: Cultural Myths of the Modern Poet, as well as of short stories, plays, and a novel.

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@Historian_Steve I really like Svetlana Boym’s The Future of Nostalgia. I think you’re right about nostalgia so long as it’s understood as an imagined, constructed past.

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I know some folks are not fans but I finally read Svetlana Boym’s The Future of Nostalgia and I loved it! ❤️

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@Rumiwithview Survivors of the twentieth century, we are all nostalgic for a time when we were not nostalgic. But there seems no way back. | Svetlana Boym, The Future of Nostalgia

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