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Nostalgie de la boue is the attraction to low-life culture, experience, and degradation, found at times both in individuals and in cultural movements.[1]
The phrase was first coined in 1855 by Emile Augier.[2]
Examples[edit]
Classical[edit]
- Tacitus records the emperor Nero's liking for roaming the streets of his capital in a slave disguise, stealing and assaulting passers-by in the company of his friends.[3]
- Petronius highlights the kind of Roman lady who "looks for something to love among the lowest of the low...heated up over the absolute dregs".[4]
Modern[edit]
- The 1890s was notable for a mix of high culture and low experience, as seen in figures like Joris-Karl Huysmans.[5]
- The youthful Bob Dylan would claim that "The only beauty's ugly, man...the hard filthy gutter sound".[6]
- Jonathan Ames described himself as drawn to prositutes and the gutter by nostalgie de la boue.[7]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ J P Sullivan ed., The Satyricon (Penguin 1986) p. 24
- ^ Nostalgie de la boue
- ^ Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome (Penguin 1966) p. 285
- ^ J P Sullivan ed., The Satyricon (Penguin 1986) p. 142
- ^ J P Sullivan ed., The Satyricon (Penguin 1986) p. 24
- ^ Dylan, Poem to Joannie (Bootlegger [1972]) p. 9-10
- ^ J Ames, Essays (2007)
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