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.
By:
Scipio Slataper
Edited by:
Elena Coda
Translated by:
Nicholas Benson
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 159mm,
Spine: 23mm
Weight: 550g
ISBN: 9781487508227
ISBN 10: 1487508220
Series: Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 19 November 2020
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
"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"
Scipio Slataper (1888–1915) was an Italian writer, most famous for his lyrical essay My Karst. He is considered, alongside Italo Svevo, as the initiator of the prolific tradition of Italian literature in Trieste. Elena Coda is an associate professor in the School of Languages and Cultures at Purdue University. Nicholas Benson is the translator of volumes by Attilio Bertolucci and Aldo Palazzeschi and the recipient of an NEA Translation Fellowship.
Reviews for My Karst and My City and Other Essays
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 * <em>Annali d'italianistica</em> *
- Short-listed for The John Florio Prize awarded by The Society of Authors 2022 (UK)
- Winner of The John Florio Prize awarded by The Society of Authors 2022 (UK)
