{"product_id":"my-karst-and-my-city-scipio-slataper-9781487508227","title":"My Karst and My City and Other Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003eScipio Slataper is one of the most prominent writers from the Italian town of Trieste. Before the onslaught of World War One, Trieste was a unique urban environment and the largest port in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was a financially powerful city and a cosmopolitan centre where Slavic, Germanic, and Italian cultures intersected. Much of Slataper's oeuvre is highly influenced by Trieste's cultural complexity and its multi-ethnic environment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSlataper's major literary achievement, \u003cem\u003eMy Karst and My City\u003c\/em\u003e - a fictionalized, lyrical autobiography, translated here in its entirety - offers a unique example of an Italian modernist narrative, one that is influenced both by Slataper's collaboration with the Florentine journal \u003cem\u003eLa Voce\u003c\/em\u003e, and by the Germanic and Scandinavian literature that he absorbed while living in Trieste. \u003cem\u003eMy Karst and My City\u003c\/em\u003e, together with the excerpts from his reflections on \u003cem\u003eIbsen\u003c\/em\u003e and other critical essays included here, adds a new voice and a different dimension to our understanding of European modernism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Scipio Slataper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1487508220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487508227\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/19\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d","brand":"Scipio Slataper","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47136454869247,"sku":"9781487508227","price":71.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_84251a6b-2534-4e65-ae87-38c78acebdb0.jpg?v=1755023393","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/my-karst-and-my-city-scipio-slataper-9781487508227","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}