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The Future of Nostalgia

By Svetlana Boym

Book information

Publisher
Basic Books
Year
2002
ISBN
0465007082, 9780465007080
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (4319524 bytes)
Edition
First Trade Paper Edition
Pages
432\0
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

Combining personal memoir, philosophical essay, and historical analysis, Svetlana 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, Mandelstahm, and Brodsky. From Jurassic Park to the Totalitarian Sculpture Garden, Boym unravels the threads of this global epidemic of longing and its antidotes.

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