Copyright © 2001 by Svetlana Boym Published by Basic Books A Member of the Perseus Books Group All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information, address Basic Books, 10 East 53rd Street, NewYork, NY 10022-5299. Designed by Elizabeth Lahey Text Set in Perpetua 11.5 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Boym, Svetlana, 1959‐ The future of nostalgia/Svetlana Boym. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-465-00707-4 1. Civilization, Modern—1950- 2. Nostalgia—Social aspects. 3. Memory—Social aspects. 4. Nostalgia in literature. 5. Authors, Exiled. 6. National characteristics. 7. Biography. 8. Identity (Psychology) 9. Post-communism-social aspects. I. Title. CB427 .B67 2001 909.82—dc21 00-045454 01 02 03 04 / 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 |