Trieste. O del nessun luogo

Sometimes when I finish a book I have a strange feeling, sort of a nostalgia, a loss of a world, a "being sorry that the book is over". It was usually good narrative that used to give me that feeling - until I read this book, the only descriptive travel book that managed to catch my heart and not my Leggi tutto

Here's a book for lovers of all things Italian trumpets the blurb on GR (I think this cliche is permissible, given the role trumpeters play in Morris's work - for instance, see Katourian in Last Letters from Hav ). I don't think this description is quite right, though, and consequently it's not very Leggi tutto

I haven't read much of Morris, it's true, but in this book it is mostly descriptions of cityscapes, neighborhoods, gardens and such. The author never introduces characters for local color. I mean living characters, not historical figures. Of the latter there are plenty: Maximilian I, Baron Pasquale

Trieste - "An outsider that I am, I still see myself as part of that half-real, half-imagined seaport, so now that after all these years I am writing a book about Trieste (at age 75, my last book, too)it is bound to be a work partly of civic impressionism, but partly of introspection----or self-indu Leggi tutto

COMENTÁRIO ⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Trieste" Jan Morris Tradução de Paulo Faria Todos os livros que tenho vindo a ler de "literatura de viagens" de Jan Morris são hinos maravilhosos aos locais que retratam. São obras cuidadas na informação que apresentam, nos comentários instigantes que pontuam as páginas (uma nota menos Leggi tutto

For as long as I can remember I’ve wanted to visit Trieste. In 1980s Nakhalpara, poring over the atlas at home after school, that odd name snuck away at the top of the Adriatic Sea, just where the leg of Italy meets the European landmass – that name “Trieste” used to make me wonder. A few years late Leggi tutto