Italo Svevo, Umberto Saba, James Joyce. But also Claudio Magris, Susanna Tamaro, Fulvio Tomizza, Paolo Rumiz, Pino Roveredo and many others. The link between Triesteliterature and the many writers who were born and lived here are revived in the new LETS Museum – Trieste Literature which will be inaugurated on September 13th.
The 450 square meters of the former 19th century warehouses Biserini Palace in Piazza Hortis they will be “a place of knowledge, art and study, but also of meeting and aggregation, of discovery and comparison”, he underlines Maurizio DeBlasior, Councilor for Education and Family Policies. A multifaceted cultural container where you can visit not only the two existing literary museums (Sveviano Museum and Joyce Museum) and the new one dedicated to Umberto Saba, but also the Libreria degli Scrittori, the main room has a great visual impact with its shelves on the walls, revolving totems, promotional spaces for new releases, display drawers for documents and multimedia stations.
A collective space dedicated to glorious past and very lively present of Trieste literature “where it is forbidden not to touch, indeed, you have to touch everything, open drawers, enjoy multimedia content, be very interactive”, he explains Cristina Fenuamong the curators of the exhibition. Alongside real gems (such as the first book read by Claudio Magris, a gift from the writer himselfMeaning what The Mysteries of the Black Jungle by Emilio Salgari in the Vallecchi edition of 1938), the room will also offer two small but suggestive rooms: those of the Voices on the Waveswhere it will be possible to read one of the approximately 2000 volumes made available or listen to one of the audiobooks of the LETSlisten project, and the Cinematograph of Storiesa video room in which, through the concise formula of a book trailer, some of the events contained within the pages of the books in the “bookstore” are told.
The LETS Museum – Trieste Literature will be open to visitors every day from 13 September (except Tuesday) from 10 to 17 and Sunday from 10 to 13. Free admission. For more information https://lets.trieste.it/
