Space of Changeable Identity and the Margins of Literature

Authors

  • Igor Škamperle

Keywords:

Italian literature, Slovene literature, border regions, national identity, cultural identity, Trieste, Karst

Abstract

The paper of the author, who is Triestine by birth, grasps in essayistic style the social, linguistic and world-view intricacies of Trieste, an exemplary metropolitan, bat incomprehensibly disheartened city, and the steep rim of the Trieste Karst behind it. As a complex and contradictory meeting point, Trieste is strongly faced by two identities, Slovenian and Italian. Its literature inscribes in itself unique topographies, a vast panorama of images imbued with distinct philosophies, incongruent ideas and thematic interests.

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Published

2017-04-15