Trieste And The Meaning Of Nowhere By Jan Morris

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A book for lovers of all things Italian -- an homage to the city of Trieste. This history-drenched city on the Adriatic has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and changeability. After visiting Trieste for more than half a century, she has come to see it as a touchstone for her interests and preoccupations: cities, seas, empires. It has even come to reflect her own life in its loves, disillusionments, and memories. Her meditation on Trieste is characteristically layered with history and glows with stories of famous visitors from James Joyce to Sigmund Freud. A lyrical travelogue, Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere is also superb cultural history and the culmination of a singular career -- "an elegant and bittersweet farewell" (Boston Globe).

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,that is, Trieste, which is the “epitome of Mitteleuropa – of Europe distilled, as it were.” So wrote Jan Morris, who started life as James Morris, about one of those delightful “niche’’ places on the map, whose original purpose has long been superseded. Can the purpose for its existence be “re-invented”? Morris cites similar other places, like Danzig or Tangiers. I thought of an air force base in eastern New Mexico that was given three years to find a purpose for its existence, or it would be closed down. (Sure enough, they found one!)Trieste was founded as the port city for the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which was dissolved at the end of World War I. Its natural hinterland was present day Czech, Slovakia, Hungary, et al. Morris identifies 1897 as the imperial high water mark, when the band played the Radetzky March in the Plaza, of which only hints of its former grandeur remain (I listened to the March on YouTube trying to obtain a feeling for that time.) On the edge of three ethnic “tectonic plates,” Slav, German and Italian, the city truly has been a political football. It took “the world” almost a decade after the Second World War to decide what to do with it: should it be part of Yugoslavia, an Independent City, or part of Italy? The last won out, so the city found itself at the far eastern end of “nowhere,” cut off from its hinterland by the “Iron Curtain.”Morris provides an outstanding historical narrative of Trieste during the days of the Empire. She relates how Guglielmo Oberdan, who fled Austrian conscription, and became an Italian, returned to Trieste in an unsuccessful effort to kill the Emperor, Franz Joseph, in 1882. It was a precursor of the ethnic hatreds that led to the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which would commence World War I. Of particular interest are her descriptions of the writers who found nurture in Trieste, in particular, James Joyce, who wrote A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man there. She is less complementary concerning another fellow traveler and writer, Sir Richard Burton, who ended his days there as a British Consular official. Of personal interest, I had just read and reviewed my first book written by John Berger. Morris quotes from Berger’s novel “G,” about a doctor who could not speak the language of his patients with the rationale: “… a cow didn’t have to explain its symptoms to a vet.” A memorable quip that encapsulates ethnic contempt.Morris provides thoughtful description of the natural world in which Trieste is set, the harbor, and the high stony infertile Karst that dominates its background. She also describes the Istria peninsula, just to the south of Trieste, which once had a significant Italian population that had to relocate after WWII, as this peninsula was allocated to Yugoslavia.The lead review on this book, published in 2002, entitled “Trieste Mia” gives some useful insights into the city from another who lived there. The review said that Morris viewed the city with far too much melancholy, and I would agree. Morris appears to have always been alone there, which might account for this outlook. Trieste might be better seen with a friend, though I’m not sure “Trieste is for lovers” is an expression that has gained tractions. I remain impressed with Morris’ erudition, and insights into one of those fascinating places in the world where different forces collide. I thank a fellow Amazon reviewer for this excellent recommendation. 5-stars.

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