Meanings
- uncountableA yearning for something base or vile.
You’re one of those half-insane, perverted women who must run after depravity, the nostalgie de la boue.
1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XIX, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC, page 3583 more examples
Politics, like Rock, Pop and Camp, has its uses; but to put one's whole status on the line for nostalgie de la boue in any of its forms would be unprincipled.
1970 June 8, Tom Wolfe, “Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's”, in New York MagazineThe fastidious and solitary public-schoolboy [George Orwell] dosses down with tramps and tarts and forces himself to endure bedbugs and chamberpots and lockups. The extraordinary thing about this nostalgie de la boue is that it is undertaken with a humorous self-consciousness and without a tinge of religious abjection or mortification.
2002, Christopher Hitchens, Why Orwell Matters, New York: Basic Books, →ISBN, page 10Mr. Smith [Shane Smith] called the appeal of the trailer-park aesthetic purveyed by Vice the latest twist on bohemia's old nostalgie de la boue.
2003 September 28, Vanessa Grigoriadis, “The Edge of Hip: Vice, the Brand”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
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