Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere

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The book has a ring of melancholy throughout as it describes various aspects of the city’s history and ends quite movingly. The false passion of the nation-state made my conceptual Europe no more than a chimera: and because of nationality the city around me that day, far from being a member of some mighty ideal whole, was debilitated in loneliness. Hitchhiking up the Adriatic coast just north of Split, we were picked up by a guy delivering tyres not to Trieste, as we had hoped, but instead to Zagreb. And similarly, she questions the legitimacy of the notion of nationality and all that is built on it. Reputada autora de livros de viagens, este é um dos seus livros mais belos, circunstância a que não é estranho o tom de despedida que perpassa por estas páginas.

Before 1970 Morris published under her assigned birth name, "James ", and is known particularly for the Pax Britannica trilogy, a history of the British Empire, and for portraits of cities, notably Oxford, Venice, Trieste, Hong Kong, and New York City, and also wrote about Wales, Spanish history, and culture. Jan Morris has no rival as a decoder of all that is idiosyncratic and defnitive in the peculiar identity of places throughout the world.Jan Morris wrote several works of fiction, and her talent as a storyteller is apparent in the pages of Trieste. For younger bookworms – and nostalgic older ones too – there’s the Slightly Foxed Cubs series, in which we’ve reissued a number of classic nature and historical novels.

Antonio Smareglia in the shadow of the arena in Pula, the same Smareglia whose operas were staged at the Teatro Verdi, the same acronym VERDI which became a touchstone for Italian irredentism.Old black barges, with awnings and lines of washing, look like sampans in China, and Adriatic fishing-craft with red sails and blunt prows are painted with cabalistic symbols for luck.

Mrs Woolf, wife of the manager, is a very celebrated author and, in her own way, more important than Galsworthy. Obviously an Italian officer, when they occupied Trieste, released his anger and sadness cutting the edge of the medal, with a knife or bayonette. Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. Trieste also had a large Jewish community as well as a largely Italian population even as it was governed from Vienna and was surrounded by Slovenian and Croatian populations. The past is a foreign country, but so is old age, and as you enter it you feel you are treading unknown territory, leaving your own land behind.Sometimes when I finish a book I have a strange feeling, sort of a nostalgia, a loss of a world, a "being sorry that the book is over". She also makes reference to both places having a “conscious sense of separateness”, due to their both being “innovative, technological place[s], not hampered by nostalgia”. A wistful book written beautifully, read easily, by a man-woman now drowning in time, looking for kindness, finding a place that she describes is the closest to humanist, or perhaps as farthest from petty ideas of race, religion, gender as you might get. Jan Morris sabia que estava a escrever o seu último livro e, com serenidade e alegria de viver, despede-se da vida e dos lugares que mais amou no mundo: o País de Gales e Trieste.

this is an addition,if possible, to my recent review of "Forbidden Bread" : Anybody interested in customs, everyday life and travel in Slovenia, first lady's Melania Trump homeland, should read this book.For Morris, Trieste was the place to which she was transported when some random moment summoned it in her mind. Over the years I have learnt only occasionally to look back on it with shame (the fundamental principle of empire having soured on all of us), but more often with a mixture of pride, affection and pathos. I don't think this description is quite right, though, and consequently it's not very helpful to potential readers.