Memoir vs Nostalgia - What's the difference?
memoir | nostalgia |
An autobiography; a book describing the personal experiences of an author.
Any form of narrative describing the personal experiences of a writer.
A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.
A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-16, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
, volume=189, issue=10, page=20, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Reminiscence of the speaker's childhood or younger years.
As nouns the difference between memoir and nostalgia
is that memoir is an autobiography; a book describing the personal experiences of an author while nostalgia is nostalgia.memoir
English
(wikipedia memoir)Noun
(en noun)- When I retire, I'm going to write my memoirs .
Usage notes
* A memoir differs from a simple autobiography by not focusing on the author as the primary subject matter, but on people and events in the author's life. Emphasis is placed on personal observations about external events. * The plural memoirs is very often used to refer to a single work.External links
*nostalgia
English
Noun
(en noun)This is the cutest article, passage= I can't have been the only person, last week, to feel a rush of nostalgia upon learning that Thames Water had removed a bus-sized, 15-tonne lump of food fat ("mixed with wet wipes") from the sewers under London. The fatberg was an August news story redolent of the old-fashioned silly season.}}
