Trieste and the meaning of nowhere, London, Faber and Faber, 2001


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Monday to Sunday 10AM – 7PM;
Closed on Tuesdays
Complex and very rich, at times painful, crossed by different peoples and languages: through newspapers, the News-stand of History recounts the story of Trieste, and the background of much of its literature.
This tells us about the authors who were born, lived and were active in Trieste from the end of the 19th century up to the present day. It illustrates the genres and languages of literature with displays original objects and documents, photographs, films; offering books, audiobooks, sound recordings and reading recommendations.
The images of the films taken from the words of the authors of Trieste take us inside the stories, inside the books that make up Literature in Trieste, together with their protagonists.
Watch the LETS (book)trailers!
Italo Svevo: the writer who always doubles up – his names, identities, religions, professions, and lives – ironically multiplying the points of view from which to better recount his story. The novelist of Trieste.
When he arrived in Trieste in 1904, James Joyce was a young aspiring writer without a penny to his name. By the time he moved to Paris, he was one of the most prominent intellectuals of the 1920s. If Dublin is the absolute protagonist of Ulysses, Trieste is its incubator and cradle.
Trieste and the meaning of nowhere, London, Faber and Faber, 2001
Verde Acqua, Torino, Einaudi, 1987
Appuntamento a Trieste, Milano, Rizzoli, 1975
Trieste nei miei ricordi, Trieste, Il ramo d’oro, 2004
Ogni angelo è tremendo, Milano, Bompiani, 2013
Memoria del corpo assente, Trieste, ZTT/EST,1999
Kačja Roža, Ljubljana, Mihelač, 1994
Trieste, la città dei venti, Roma, E/O, 2010
Pesmi, V Ljubljani, Državna založba Slovenije, 1946
Microcosmi, Milano, Garzanti, 1997
La coscienza di Zeno, Milano, Dall’Oglio, 1957
Bora zeleste. Poesie (1990-1998), Trieste, MGS press, 2000
Tržaške humoreske, Ljubljana, Cankarjeva založba, 1957
Alter, Montecassiano, Vydia, 2019 (versi tratti dalla poesia [Alter])
Gli anni della psicanalisi, Trieste, Studio Tesi, 2020
Sol na jezik, Trieste, ZTT EST, 2013
Trieste selvatica, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2019
La dura spina, Milano, Isbn, 2010
Aus der Triumphgasse, Frankfurt a. M., Fischer, 1955
La frontiera, Palermo, Sellerio, 1988
La città celeste, Milano, La nave di Teseo, 2021
Alle spalle di Trieste, Milano, Bompiani, 1995
Vita triestina avanti e durante la guerra, Trieste, Monciatti, 1961
Zasanjanost. Izbrane pesmi, Trieste, ZTT, 1983
La mia vita, Bologna, Tamari, 1969
Trieste, Trieste, Edizioni EL, 2020
Duineser Elegien
L’orologio di Monaco, Venezia, Marsilio, 2017
Ossetia, Trieste, Battello stampatore, 2010
L’anima di Trieste, Firenze, Vallecchi, 1968
Elegie istriane, Milano, All’insegna del pesce d’oro, 1963 (elegia dal titolo: Trieste 1945)
L’esercizio del distacco, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 2018
L’onda dell’incrociatore, Torino, Einaudi, 1947
L’acrobata, Torino, Einaudi, 1994
Lettere triestine, Trieste, Dedolibri, 1988
Il complesso dell’Imperatore, Milano, Mondadori, 1979
Trieste sottosopra, Roma-Bari, Laterza 2006
Antología poética, Buenos Aires, Fondo nacional de las Artes, 1996
Parnik trobi nji, Ljubljana, Cankarjeva založba, 1964
Letters. (Letter II, 249), London, Faber and Faber, 1957
Amiche per la pelle, Roma, E/O, 2007
Trieste e una donna, Milano, Mondadori, 1950
LETS listen. A series of free audiobooks based on stories and novels by writers from our area
Triestemetro is a metro that you take on foot. Of the 7 lines that correspond to the thematic routes, the red one represents the literary one, which runs through the places linked to the main authors in LETS – Literature Trieste, the museum that begins in the halls and ends in the streets.