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.
- ISBN10 0465007082
- ISBN13 9780465007080
- Publish Date 28 March 2002 (first published 21 March 2001)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Basic Books
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 432
- Language English