

Free admission
Opening times:
Monday to Saturday 10AM – 5PM;
Sunday 10AM– 1PM;
Closed on Tuesday
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.
Microcosmi, Milano, Garzanti, 1997
Ossetia, Trieste, Battello stampatore, 2010
Zasanjanost. Izbrane pesmi, Trieste, ZTT, 1983
Sol na jezik, Trieste, ZTT EST, 2013
Antología poética, Buenos Aires, Fondo nacional de las Artes, 1996
La mia vita, Bologna, Tamari, 1969
Memoria del corpo assente, Trieste, ZTT/EST,1999
Trieste selvatica, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2019
La dura spina, Milano, Isbn, 2010
Duineser Elegien
L’esercizio del distacco, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 2018
Il complesso dell’Imperatore, Milano, Mondadori, 1979
Amiche per la pelle, Roma, E/O, 2007
Aus der Triumphgasse, Frankfurt a. M., Fischer, 1955
Elegie istriane, Milano, All’insegna del pesce d’oro, 1963 (elegia dal titolo: Trieste 1945)
Bora zeleste. Poesie (1990-1998), Trieste, MGS press, 2000
La frontiera, Palermo, Sellerio, 1988
Vita triestina avanti e durante la guerra, Trieste, Monciatti, 1961
Appuntamento a Trieste, Milano, Rizzoli, 1975
Trieste, la città dei venti, Roma, E/O, 2010
Letters. (Letter II, 249), London, Faber and Faber, 1957
Trieste, Trieste, Edizioni EL, 2020
Trieste nei miei ricordi, Trieste, Il ramo d’oro, 2004
Alter, Montecassiano, Vydia, 2019 (versi tratti dalla poesia [Alter])
L’orologio di Monaco, Venezia, Marsilio, 2017
Pesmi, V Ljubljani, Državna založba Slovenije, 1946
La città celeste, Milano, La nave di Teseo, 2021
L’anima di Trieste, Firenze, Vallecchi, 1968
Alle spalle di Trieste, Milano, Bompiani, 1995
Trieste and the meaning of nowhere, London, Faber and Faber, 2001
Trieste e una donna, Milano, Mondadori, 1950
Parnik trobi nji, Ljubljana, Cankarjeva založba, 1964
Verde Acqua, Torino, Einaudi, 1987
Kačja Roža, Ljubljana, Mihelač, 1994
L’acrobata, Torino, Einaudi, 1994
La coscienza di Zeno, Milano, Dall’Oglio, 1957
Trieste sottosopra, Roma-Bari, Laterza 2006
Lettere triestine, Trieste, Dedolibri, 1988
Gli anni della psicanalisi, Trieste, Studio Tesi, 2020
Ogni angelo è tremendo, Milano, Bompiani, 2013
L’onda dell’incrociatore, Torino, Einaudi, 1947
Tržaške humoreske, Ljubljana, Cankarjeva založba, 1957
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.