Ernest, or prison of Umberto Saba ; L'Ernesto, ovvero Il prigione di Umberto Saba ; Ernest ali ječa Umberta Sabe

Privileged meeting point between Slavic, Latin and Germanic cultures, Trieste has always been a breeding ground of literal experiments, a place where the old meets the new, tradition modernity. Its natural creativity and receptivity is to be found in its flowing, open identity, in the absence of that weight that national institutions ascribe to monoethnic and national culture. Ernest, the uncompleted novel of Umberto Saba, an Italian poet native of Trieste, was written in 1953 just before dying and published in 1975. Its open and indefinite form still fascinates critics and readers. It is the... Mehr ...