Svetlana Boym wrote that nostalgia “goes beyond individual
psychology. At first glance, nostalgia is a longing for a place, but actually
it is a yearning for a different time—the time of our childhood, the slower
rhythms of our dreams. In a broader sense, nostalgia is a rebellion against the
modern idea of time, the time of history and progress.â€Â
The Curt Hugo Reisinger professor of Slavic languages and
literatures and comparative literature at Harvard University di
