The Future of Nostalgia

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.

• | Author: Svetlana Boym
• | Publisher: Basic Books
• | Publication Date: March 28, 2002
• | Number of Pages: 432 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0465007082
• | ISBN-13: 9780465007080