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Title: Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere by Jan Morris, Trefan Morys ISBN: 0-306-81180-4 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 03 September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 (12 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A lovely coda
Comment: Jan Morris has written a book that conveys both the spirit of a city she loves and maybe the melancholy she feels at the end of her long career. It can be read as an allegory for a life of change and travel. She describes Trieste as being a city of many pasts, being at the edge of various expanding and contracting powers throughout its history, particularly as the main port for the Austro-Hungarian Hapsburg empire. Today it is a city of memories and she evokes this reality with a writing style that remains true to the tight prose needed of a newspaper correspondent of fifty years ago. I recommend Trieste And The Meaning Of Nowhere as highly as I recommend the body of work that Ms Morris leaves us with. Dig into some of her less well known books and you will be rewarded with rare jewels.
Rating: 3
Summary: At its center lies a lie
Comment: Jan Morris says Trieste is 'the natural capital' of a 'Fourth World,' whose citizens 'are never chauvinists.' Among them, 'you will not be mocked'because they will not care about your nationality.' They 'are never mean.' Her Trieste is 'as near to a decent city that you can find at the start of the twenty-first century.' She does admit that 'a lot of what [she] has written' comes 'from [her] own mind,' still what a curious view of Trieste, arguably the most hate-filled city in Italy. Much of the book is beautiful, because she writes from 'libidinous' love. That may explain how wrong she is. Can the besotted be trusted?
For antidotes to her beautiful lie, read Bernard Meares or A. J. P. Taylor. Here's a piece of corrective evidence about her "decent city." Today an alliance of Berlusconi's Forza Italia and the neo-fascist Alleanza Nazionale rules Trieste. The new mayor's very first official act was to restore to its place in the civic gallery the portrait of Cesare Pagnini, the podesta of Trieste under the Nazis. Pagnini founded the Guardia Civica, which guarded the trains taking Jews and others to even more efficient extermination camps than the one operating in Pagnini's Trieste. Said Eugenio Montale to a Triestine friend years ago, 'You in Trieste, do you still hate as much as you used to?' The answer in Trieste will, alas, always be Yes.
The book is beautiful, but at its center lies a lie.
Rating: 3
Summary: The writer knows a bit, the editorial reviewers know less
Comment: To add to my previous short review of this book, please go to the Society for Slovene Studies page. Just type into Google, for instance: Society for Slovene Studies. And when you get there, go to Book Reviews, where you will find, a review of this book by someone. me, who, by chance, knows something about Trieste. Jan Morris's book is extremely important as it is another current book, this one by a great prose stylist, which misunderstands Italy completely. After all, Italy is the only country in Europe which has not only neo-Fascists in its government, but old Fascists,too, who fought with Mussolini's Salo republic. And the capital of that neo-Fascist Italy is...come sempre...Trieste.
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Title: The World of Venice: Revised Edition by Jan Morris ISBN: 0156983567 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 12 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The World: Travels 1950-2000 by Jan Morris ISBN: 0393052087 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Photocopies : Encounters by John Berger ISBN: 0679755179 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 17 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: A Writer's House in Wales (National Geographic Directions) by Jan Morris ISBN: 0792265238 Publisher: National Geographic Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Force of Spirit by Scott Russell Sanders ISBN: 0807062979 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 18 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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