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The Future of Nostalgia – Boehm Svetlana – New Literary Review – 2021 – ISBN 978-5-4448-1570-0

The Future of Nostalgia
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The Future of Nostalgia
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Can a person be nostalgic for a home he or she never had? What is the reason why the age of globalization is accompanied by an equally global epidemic of nostalgia? What is the fate of memories of the Old World in the era of the New World Order? Do we realize what exactly we are nostalgic about? In the course of exploring the history of the "hypochondria of the heart" ranging from a curable ailment to an incurable form of being of the modern era, Svetlana Boim has succeeded in opening up a new applied field, a new typology, and the identification of a new aesthetic, namely, nostalgia studies: From "Jurassic Park" to the Totalitarian Sculpture Garden in Moscow, from love messages on Kafka's grave to the revelations of an imitator of Hitler, from the ruins of the New Synagogue in Berlin to the restored Sistine Chapel... Boym argues that nostalgia is not only an attraction to an abandoned home or a forsaken homeland, but also a longing for other times - the period of our childhood or a distant historical epoch. Combining the genres of philosophical essay, aesthetic analysis and personal recollections, the author explores the spaces of collective nostalgia, national myths and personal stories of exiles. She leads us through the ruins and construction sites of post-communist cities such as St. Petersburg, Moscow and Berlin, explores the imaginary homelands of writers and artists such as V. Nabokov, I. Brodsky and I. Kabakov, examines souvenir collections in the homes of ordinary immigrants, etc.
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