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Stories Set in Trieste
For centuries Trieste was Austria's seaport, a windy border city where James Joyce taught English and befriended Italo Svevo. Empires withdrew, the coffee houses stayed, and the city kept its Central European melancholy. Zeno's Conscience grew directly from that friendship; Ernesto looks back at it. Open Trieste on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 6 books and 3 movies set in Trieste.
James Joyce
Although several biographers have thrown themselves into the breach since this magisterial book first appeared in 1959, none have come close to matching the late Richard Ellmann's achievement. To be fair, Ellmann does…
Ernesto
Ernesto (Martin Halm) is a young Italian Jew of the early 1900s who works in his uncle's factory in Trieste. Not entirely secure with his sexual orientation Ernesto enters into an affair with one of his uncle's…
Zeno's Conscience
Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available in a supple new English translation, Italo Svevo’s charming and splendidly idiosyncratic novel conducts readers deep into…
Dies irae
Después de Memento mori... ha llegado el día de la ira.La acción de este thriller implacable arranca en la peculiar ciudad italiana de Trieste, frontera entre dos mundos. Augusto Ledesma elige el que fuera hogar de…
Nora
In 1904 in Dublin James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank direct and uninhibited manner and before long he's convinced her to come with him to Trieste…
The Girl from Trieste
A middle-aged artist (Ben Gazarra) sketching on the beach witnesses a young woman (Ornella Muti) being rescued from drowning. He loans her a blanket. Later she returns the blanket and they have sex several times but she…
Julemysteriet
I en bortgjemt bokhandel finner Joakim en magisk julekalender. Hver dag når han åpner en luke i kalenderen, faller det ut en liten lapp med en fortelling om Elisabeth og hennes reise til Betlehem. Det er en reise…
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Non è dopoguerra, è solo un'altra guerra. Il mondo è diviso in blocchi, in realtà ideologie e frontiere si stanno già sgretolando: merci e droga non conoscono confini. Dall'Italia a Mosca a Hollywood, tra balere, viaggi…
Polska... rivemo!: Sete bici, do veci, un cocal e una cornacia
Il libro, scritto interamente in dialetto triestino, è diviso in tre sezioni che si alternano. La prima racconta il viaggio in bicicletta di sette ragazzi triestini da Trieste a Cracovia, in dodici tappe. Al termine di…
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