"Progress has not only not cured the disease of nostalgia, but has made it worse. Nostalgia is the longing for a home that has never existed or that has ceased to exist. In the seventeenth century it was considered that the nostalgia was a curable disease. In the XXI it is a modern and incurable disease. "
With these teachings, a fascinating book by Svetlana Boym, professor of Slavic literatures at Harvard, who died in 2015 at the age of 56, opens.
Boym was a woman -born in Russia- d
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