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The Future of Nostalgia

Name: The Future of Nostalgia
Brand: Basic Books
SKU: 9780465007080
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Contributors:

Svetlana Boym

Publisher:

Basic Books

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

History, Political Science

Book Subcategory:

Social History, Modern, Political Ideologies

Book Topic:

20th Century, Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism

Audience:

Young Adult

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Release Date:

2002-03-28

ISBN 13:

9780465007080

Weight:

1.05 lbs

Size:

9.10 x 5.90 x 1.10 inches

Pages:

432

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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.

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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