num_pages: 432
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Future of Nostalgia
titlecomplete: The Future of Nostalgia
genres: Academic, Essays, Art, Russia, Philosophy, Cultural, Theory, Nonfiction, History, Memoir
ratings_count: 652
publisher: Basic Books