“My Carso” is Scipio Slataper’s most important work and the only novel that he wrote. Published in 1912, the author himself calls it a “lyric autobiography,” written in the form of a diary to express the strong ties he has with the land of his birth and with Trieste, his native city. The reader gains a sense of Slataper’s disorientation and profound sorrow following the death of his beloved Gioietta, to whom the novel is dedicated. “My Carso” is a literary confession that is also a testament to life; in fact, the author himself died a few years after publication, in World War I.
