Only Yesterday
- date of publication: 29.01.2018
- 320 Pages
- Hanser Verlag
- hardcover
- ISBN 978-3-446-25843-3
- Deutschland: 23,00 €
- Österreich: 23,70 €
- ePUB-Format
- E-Book ISBN 978-3-446-25955-3
- E-Book Deutschland: 16,99 €
On the gradual disappearance of the familiar – a brief history of the everyday
Suddenly something disappears: a car model that shaped the look of cities for many years; a fashionable women’s hairstyle; lonely hearts ads. Films, sayings and social manners that were part of everyday life just a few decades ago have vanished. And nobody can say when it happened. Historical turning points exist, but times usually change little by little. Martin Meyer retraces the gradual disappearance of the familiar by remembering what constituted everyday life ten, twenty or thirty years ago – in personal, wonderful prose pieces, rather than systematically and representatively. In doing so, the reader is prompted to check his or her own memories: how has the world changed, and how have we ourselves changed?