Letteratura Trieste

A museum all to be read, leaf through, listen to, watch.
A museum in the form of a newsstand, a bookshop, a cinema.
A museum that contains three more and speaks four languages.
A museum of paper and pixels.
LETStalk, LETSlisten, LETShow, LETSplay, LETSwalk:
There are many ways to experience literature in Trieste

LETS Museum – Literature Trieste
Piazza Hortis, 4 – Trieste

Free admission

Opening times:
Monday to Saturday 10AM – 5PM;
Sunday 10AM– 1PM;
Closed on Tuesday

The Newsstand of History

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.

The Writers' Bookshop

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 Cinematograph of Stories

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!

Svevo Museum

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.

Joyce Museum

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.

Saba Museum

For Umberto Saba, poetry was a journey of knowledge and self-representation. The Canzoniere was the mirror in which he scrutinized and discovered himself, an unfinished self-portrait to which revealing details of himself and of the world “looked at from Trieste” were added or removed from time to time.

Quotes

LETS listen

LETS listen. A series of free audiobooks based on stories and novels by writers from our area

LETS walk

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.