Angelo Ara and Claudio Magris delve into the peculiarity of "case Trieste 'from studying the history of the city and the literary evidence. And so have a unit Trieste in a crossroads that respects the European strains, melting-often dramatically-different ethnic groups: Italian, Slavic, German, and which can coexist irredentism and emperor worship Francisco José, cosmopolitanism and the municipal closure. "This diversity of Trieste has been flaunted, denied, faced with clear consciousness, arrogantly ignored or encoded in a comfortable and false cliché, which has regularly appealed his ruling class to justify and explain their lack of socio-political suitability 'point the authors. '' Abstract and premeditated "City, as Dostoevsky said St. Petersburg (which has also grown by the decision of a government and not by a process of organic development), Trieste has been, and remains, a city full of contrasts, but especially has sought and seeks his own purpose in these contrasts and its indissoluble character. Writers who have lived background heterogeneity and multiplicity of elements without possible unity have realized that Trieste like the Habsburg Empire was a part of that was a model of disparity and contradiction of all modern civilization, lacking a foundation . Central and unit values ​​"Deeply international Triestine and at the same time, a modernity that today we can better understand, are the figures who pass through these pages: Svevo, Saba, Slataper, the Stuparich brothers, Michelstaedter, Weiss , Benco, Marin, Quarantotti Gambini, Bazlen, among others, carriers of different experiences but at the same time original creators.