Questa Trieste... (This Trieste...)

The book includes thirteen essays in Italian on Slovenian literature. In the first part, the author Prof. Marija Pirjevec illustrates the works of Boris Pahor, Alojz Rebula, Srečko Kosovel, Miroslav Košuta and Edvard Kocbek, presenting the socio-cultural development of the Slovenian community in Italy from its beginnings, i.e. from the work of Primož Trubar, preacher of the Cathedral of San Giusto in Trieste in the sixteenth century, to the present day. The significance of this extensive essay lies precisely in the historical revelation for the non-Slovenian reader of the cultural and political traces of the Slovene presence in the city of Trieste.

In the second part of the book, the author describes the concept of populism and cosmopolitanism in some Slovene authors of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, writes about the Italian responses to the translations of Prešeren's works into Italian, points out the contacts between Slovene and Italian culture between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (she mainly deals with the contacts between Slovenian and Italian academies), he explores the attitude of the Italian writer Ippolito Nievo towards the Slovenes of Benecia, of whom he writes in his novel Il conte pecoraio, and emphasizes the importance of the anthology of Slovenian authors published in 1951 in Rome by the Italian Slavist Luigi Salvini.

The preface was written by the eminent Italianist from Trieste Elvio Guagnini.

Marija Pirjevec (1941) is an Italian historian, translator, writer and lecturer of Slovenian origin. 

She graduated in Slovenian language and literature from the University of Trieste (1966) and the University of Ljubljana (1971) and has been teaching at the School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators at the University of Trieste since 1993. Over the course of her more than forty years of activity, she has dedicated herself to promoting Slovenian culture in Italy and Europe through the publication of monographs, anthologies, critical essays and important translations of Slovenian poets and authors, especially those from Trieste and its surroundings (Trubar, Prešeren, Košuta Kosovel, Kocbek, Pahor, Rebula).

She is constantly committed to promoting the development of relations between the Institute of Slavic Philology of the Department of Literature at the University of Trieste and similar Slovenian institutions, through various activities and conferences. 

I'm a shipping policy. I'm a great place to add more information about your shipping methods, packaging and cost. Providing straightforward information about your shipping policy is a great way to build trust and reassure your customers that they can buy from you with confidence.

I’m a Return and Refund policy. I’m a great place to let your customers know what to do in case they are dissatisfied with their purchase. Having a straightforward refund or exchange policy is a great way to build trust and reassure your customers that they can buy with confidence.