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My Karst and My City and Other Essays is the first book available in English on the work of Scipio Slataper, one of the most prominent intellectuals active in Trieste at the turn of the twentieth century.
List of 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
About the author
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.
Summary
My Karst and My City and Other Essays is the first book available in English on the work of Scipio Slataper, one of the most prominent intellectuals active in Trieste at the turn of the twentieth century.
