My Karst and My City and Other Essays / / Scipio Slataper; ed. by Elena Coda.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
• VerfasserIn: Slataper, Scipio,
• MitwirkendeR: Benson, Nicholas,; Coda, Elena,
• TeilnehmendeR: Benson, Nicholas.
• HerausgeberIn: Coda, Elena,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Note on the Translations -- PART ONE My Karst and My City -- I -- II -- III -- PART TWO From Political Writings: Letters on Trieste -- Trieste Has No Cultural Traditions -- The Life of the Spirit -- PART THREE From Literary and Critical Writings -- To Young Italian Intellectuals -- Futurism -- Crepuscular Confusion -- PART FOUR From Ibsen -- PART FIVE From Political Writings -- Irredentism Today -- The National and Political Future of Trieste -- National Rights Are Affirmed with War -- PART SIX From Letters to Three Women Friends -- To Elody (Florence, 6 June 1912) -- To Gigetta (Florence, 8 February 1912) -- To Gigetta (23 November 1915) -- Index