Description or summary of the book: 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.
Estimated reading time (average reader): 24H14M23S
Other categories, genre or collection: Social & Political Philosophy, Classical History / Classical Civilisation, Biography: General, Social & Cultural History, Literary Studies: General, Popular Culture, 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000, General & World History, Philosophy, European History
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