Naturally as the author of books with titles
like A GOOD OLD-FASHIONED FUTURE and
TOMORROW NOW I could not resist perusing
a book with a title like Svetlana Boym's
THE FUTURE OF NOSTALGIA.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~slavic/faculty/svetlana_boym.html
It really is a book whose topic is the future of nostalgia, mind you
*Given that FUTURE OF NOSTALGIA was
written by a soulful, poetic Soviet
emigre' who is also the whip-smart
Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature
at Harvard, this is the best off-modern Russian
book since Jack Womack's LET'S PUT THE FUTURE
BEHIND US (which in itself has the unique
distinction of being the best Russian gangster
thriller ever written by a guy who's not Russian).
*In other literary news from the Avant-Garde
of Mankind, this genuinely Russian writer, "Boris Akunin,'
writes highly contemporary Russian gangster bestseller
novels ANACHRONISTICALLY SET IN CZARIST RUSSIA,
and is clearly another winner in the off-modernist sweepstakes.
*Until I read Svetlana Boym, I had never
seen or heard the useful term "off-modernist." It's got its
merits. At least, it sure beats the hell out of calling contemporary people "post-Soviet."
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/interviews/article305249.ece
