{"product_id":"common-places-mythologies-of-everyday-life-in-russia-library-of-african-adventure-3-9780674146266","title":"Common Places Mythologies of Everyday Life in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoym provides a view of Russia that is historically informed, replete with unexpected detail, and stamped with authority. Alternating analysis with personal accounts of Russian life, she conveys the foreignness of Russia and examines its peculiar conceptions of private life and common good, of Culture and Trash, of sincerity and banality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVisitors and outsiders have long lamented that the real lives of Soviet citizens were hidden behind a veil of official rhetoric. The private self was kept separate from the public self as a sort of defensive or coping mechanism. Boym, who was raised in Leningrad but has lived in the West for 13 years, analyzes the dichotomy between the common meeting places of public life and the no-places of private life and discerns a cultural tradition that still persists. Her themes are the communal apartment (which deprived all residents of a private life), graphomania (the compulsion to bad writing), and the spiritual self in Russian philosophy. Examples are drawn from film, literature, painting, and philosophy of the 19th and, primarily, 20th centuries. -- Marcia L. Sprules * Library Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Theoretical Common Places   Rubber Plants and the Soviet Order of Things   Archeology of the Common Place   A Labyrinth without a Monster   The Mythologist as Traveler    1. Mythologies of Everyday Life   Byt: Daily Grind and Domestic Trash   Poshlost': Banality, Obscenity, Bad Taste   Meshchanstvo: Middle Class, Middlebrow   Private Life and Russian Soul   Truth, Sincerity, Affectation   Kul'turnost': The Totalitarian Lacquer Box   Soviet Songs: From Stalin's Fairy Tale to \"Good-bye, Amerika\"    2. Living in Common Places: The Communal Apartment   Family Romance and Communal Utopia   Art and the Housing Crisis: Intellectuals in the Closet   Welcome to the Communal Apartment   Psychopathology of Soviet Everyday Life   Interior Decoration   The Ruins of Utopia   A Homecoming, 1991    3. Writing Common Places: Graphomania   History of the Literary Disease   The Forgotten Classics   The Genius of the People and the Conceptual Police   Glasnost', Graphomania, and Popular Culture   A Taxi Ride with a Graphomaniac    4. Postcommunism, Postmodernism   The End of the Soviet World: From the Barricades to the Bazaar   Glasnost' Streetwalking: Fallen Monuments and Rising Dolls   Stalin's Cinematic Charisma, or\tHistory as Kitsch   Trashy Jewels of Women Artists   Merchant Renaissance and Cultural Scandals   The Obscure Object of Advertisement    Conclusion: Nostalgia for the Common Place    Notes   Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51138139980119,"sku":"9780674146266","price":37.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674146266.jpg?v=1751918157","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/common-places-mythologies-of-everyday-life-in-russia-library-of-african-adventure-3-9780674146266","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}