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Scipio Slataper is one of the most prominent writers from the Italian town of Trieste. Before the onslaught of World War One, Trieste was a unique urban environment and the largest port in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was a financially powerful city and a cosmopolitan centre where Slavic, Germanic, and Italian cultures intersected. Much of Slataper's oeuvre is highly influenced by Trieste's cultural complexity and its multi-ethnic environment.
Slataper's major literary achievement, My Karst and My City - a fictionalized, lyrical autobiography, translated here in its entirety - offers a unique example of an Italian modernist narrative, one that is influenced both by Slataper's collaboration with the Florentine journal La Voce, and by the Germanic and Scandinavian literature that he absorbed while living in Trieste. My Karst and My City, together with the excerpts from his reflections on Ibsen and other critical essays included here, adds a new voice and a different dimension to our understanding of European modernism.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
"This Little Corner of Europe": Slataper's Reflections on and around Trieste's Cultural and National Identity
Elena Coda
A Note on the Texts and Their Translations
Nicholas Benson and Elena Coda
1. My Karst and My City
2. From Political Writings: Letters on Trieste
Trieste Has No Cultural Traditions
The Life of the Spirit
3. From Literary and Critical Writings
To Young Italian Intellectuals
Futurism
Crepuscular Confusion
4. From Ibsen
5. From Political Writings
Irredentism Today
The National and Political Future of Trieste
National Rights Are Affirmed with War
6. From Letters to Three Women Friends
To Elody (Firenze, 6 June 1912)
To Gigetta (Firenze, 8 February 1912)
To Gigetta (23 November 1915)
Index
