The James Joyce statue in Trieste, where Joyce once lived. With its creative instability on the periphery of three language zones, the city has long fascinated writers It’s cooler at the edge. Trieste, that darling of cosmopolitan regret, has continued to fascinate writers from James Joyce and Italo Svevo to Claudio Magris and Jan Morris, with its creative instability on the periphery of three language zones, the German, Slovenian and Italian. In Diego Marani’s The Celestial City, translated by Graham Anderson (Dedalus, 207pp, £9.99), Trieste provides the setting for a coming-of-age novel from the author of the highly acclaimed New...
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Monitoring Antisemitism & Jewish Security Intel
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
