Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere

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one of the most impressive and subtle meditations on old age that I have read, much more than mere smudges of grafitti on a wall. From Nobel Laureates Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter to theatre greats Tom Stoppard and Alan Bennett to rising stars Polly Stenham and Florian Zeller, Faber Drama presents the very best theatre has to offer.

He and Perry talked about that point in life where it no longer matters what other people think and the liberation it brings. The book has a ring of melancholy throughout as it describes various aspects of the city’s history and ends quite movingly. She organized the book in short chapters that focus on different aspects of Trieste and the surrounding region. As a consequence, places, people, views, feelings I know so well kicked in, in my memory, in such a powerful way that sometimes I felt like I was losing the point of view of the author.

Over the course of her life, she published over 40 books – travel narratives, histories, memoirs, and fiction. And just where did the young Sigmund Freud cut open all those hundreds of eels, trying to figure out their sex organs? Located on a narrow, mountainous finger of Italy hard by Croatia and Slovenia, the port city of Trieste is little-visited and seldom in the news.

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. I want to join in with the daftness and the curiosity, because a large enough part of me is still there mentally, but I know that I can’t. A band is playing on a nearby bandstand, and “ the music of a waltz sets people flirtatiously swaying as they chat.This is something that was picked up on in the episode of Grayson’s Art Club on Dreams this week (Series 2 Episode 4). She spent the last years of her life with her partner Elizabeth Morris in the top left-hand corner of Wales, between the mountains and the sea. She walks us through modern Trieste, as she knew it at the time of writing, comparing it to other places picked up by an imperial invader and then left to its own devices.

The books includes so nice passages, and one cannot avoid thinking about Maximilian and Carlota when reading about the Miramar Castle.

Evoking the whole of its modern history, from its explosive growth to wealth and fame under the Habsburgs, through the years of Fascist rule to the miserable years of the Cold War, when rivalries among the great powers prevented its creation as a free city under United Nations auspices, Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere is neither a history nor a travel book; like the place, it is one of a kind.