'My Karst', the Most Tormented Novel in Trieste

El Pais

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There are many more beautiful cities in Italy than Trieste, but few as unique. For centuries, its status as a free port of the Habsburg empire, the main outlet to the sea for that now-disappeared conglomerate of towns, made it a cosmopolitan place with Italians, Germans, Jews, English, French, Armenians, Slovenes and Croats, linked by the dynamism of Italian trade and culture. Although, since 1919, the city has belonged to Italy, this mixture th…