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The Future of Nostalgia Paperback – March 28, 2002

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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.

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"A fine book." -- --Luc Sante, Bookforum

"This multifaceted work gives the reader much to ponder in regard to what we hold dear." -- --Library Journal

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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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0465007082
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Basic Books; Illustrated edition (March 28, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 432 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780465007080
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0465007080
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 13 years and up
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1310L
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 11 and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.17 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #568,457 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #179 in History & Criticism of Russian & Soviet Literature
- #279 in Emigrants & Immigrants Biographies
- #1,792 in Popular Culture in Social Sciences

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Noah

To Svetlanda Boym: please, I am single

Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2022

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Boym is an accessible, elegant, funny, and smart writer. The book remains (in my mind) a touchstone for contemporary thought on memory and trauma. If either of those interest you, this book should top your reading list.

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O. F. Smith

Key book on this topic

Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2019

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Really interesting book, not much out there like it and so fills a really important place If you’re interested in history, memory, human connections to things and places and why we keep certain things as important. In general more of a scholarly book, but anyone who’s interested in this topic should read it.

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Norman Lipson

I Miss Nostalgia and Now I Know Why!

Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2013

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One of the most fascinatingly themed books I have read in many years, but once it moved from its major theme, Nostalgia, to the second half of the book, her excruciatingly detailed narratives of the internal issues within Russian cities,quickly became very tedious and boring to a non-Russian.

In reality, Nostalgia is two separate books and each could well stand on its own.

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Debra Jacob

Wonderfully perceptive

Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2016

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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.

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Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2021

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Returned. Bought elsewhere

Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2015

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Good book

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Alan Griffin

The phenomenon of nostalgia

Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2015

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Very well written and enjoyable reading. Scholarly written - a very informative and intelligent book capturing ... nostalgia!

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LW in NM

Scholarly and deep

Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2015

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Perfect for those who want a full discussion of "the mysteries and rhythms of longing" and memory

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kikoarquer

Um olhar sobre a nostalgia e sobre o leste europeu.

Reviewed in Brazil on August 17, 2021

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É um bom livro. A autora faz um apanhado maravilhoso sobre a construção (e desconstrução) da nostalgia. O que me cansou um pouco foi que ela ficou muito tempo descrevendo detalhes etnográficos do leste europeu dos anos 80 e 90, mas essa era a proposta da autora mesmo.

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Gerald P.

Four Stars

Reviewed in Canada on November 23, 2015

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Clever and clear discussion of the often overlooked 'pathology' of nostalgia.

Qingling Zhang

worth the price

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 17, 2021

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The book is in very good condition, and worth the money!!

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Shubham Shubhra

You need time to read this.

Reviewed in India on October 6, 2017

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This book is not for your average Joe, sorry to all Joes. It's Russian Contemporary history told in a personal, empathetic and poetic manner. Wannabe communists need to read this.

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Zarathustra

Excellent book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 25, 2010

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The book would appeal to those with interest in the history and culture of socialism. However it touches upon other fields as well, psychology for example, in explaining the roots of nostalgia as an illness in the past to the contemporary experiences of it as a cultural phenomenon.

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