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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

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Classical

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  • 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

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  • 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

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References

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  1. ^ J P Sullivan ed., The Satyricon (Penguin 1986) p. 24
  2. ^ Nostalgie de la boue
  3. ^ Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome (Penguin 1966) p. 285
  4. ^ J P Sullivan ed., The Satyricon (Penguin 1986) p. 142
  5. ^ J P Sullivan ed., The Satyricon (Penguin 1986) p. 24
  6. ^ Dylan, Poem to Joannie (Bootlegger [1972]) p. 9-10
  7. ^ J Ames, Essays (2007)
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