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danhf 's review for:
The Future of Nostalgia
by Svetlana Boym
I absolutely loved the opening chapters, as well as the other (rather occasional) sections that engage directly with the question of locating and theorizing nostalgia. But as an impatient reader coming to the book without an overwhelming interest in the histories of specific Russian and European cities, the very lengthy chapters that narrated the social and cultural histories of St. Petersburg, Moscow, Berlin and Prague were a bit much, and I ended up skimming quite a few sections. Nevertheless, Boym's acerbic writing is superb, and her wide-ranging interests and always-insightful reflections on questions of culture and politics are hugely impressive.