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My Karst and My City and Other Essays

Scipio Slataper author Nicholas Benson translator Elena Coda editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of Toronto Press

Published:19th Nov '20

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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.

"This volume is an important milestone in the literary criticism of Trieste, a valuable companion in future explorations of the Adriatic city that makes Slataper’s rich and multifaceted work finally available in English."

-- Salvatore Pappalardo, Towson University * Annali d’italianistica
  • Winner of The John Florio Prize awarded by The Society of Authors 2022 (UK)

ISBN: 9781487508227

Dimensions: 235mm x 159mm x 23mm

Weight: 550g

280 pages