The Future of Nostalgia
Autor Svetlana Boymen Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 mar 2002 – vârsta de la 13 ani
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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780465007080
ISBN-10: 0465007082
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 152 x 226 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:First Trade Paper Edition
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books
ISBN-10: 0465007082
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 152 x 226 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:First Trade Paper Edition
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books
Notă biografică
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.
Descriere
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.