| #78800 in Books | Svetlana Boym | 2002-03-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.00 x6.00l,1.15 | File Name: 0465007082 | 432 pages | Future of Nostalgia
||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Wonderfully perceptive|By Debra Jacob|This is one of the best books I've read in a long time -- fiction or nonfiction. Boym is quite perceptive about the immigrant mindset, expectations, and associated nostalgia. Unfortunately, she died only a few months ago. Her obit in the New York Times provides a nice overview, in case you are not familiar with her work.|11 of 12 people f|From Publishers Weekly|The future of nostalgia isn't what it used to be, or at least it won't be once this book starts making its way through academic circles. A sort of training manual for the wistful, Boym's book alternates "between critical reflection and st
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 Scul... [PDF.bg53] The Future of Nostalgia Rating: 4.85 (661 Votes)
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