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The article addresses Vladimir Bartol sfluid self-identification in relation to changeable places of his stay in thefirst decade after the Second World War. The writer s constant oscillation between Trieste and Ljubljana was accompanied by the shift in perspectives ('minority/majority) and cultural/linguistic dualities which render the Slovenian literature in Italy with existentialist overtone. Bartol s return to Tr iesteproblematized h is self understanding n ot only in spatial terms but also with respect to overlapping temporalities (Habsburg multicultural free port of the past versus the present Cold-War image of the city). Consequently, his stay in Trieste gave way to the extensive personal writing which is also the paper s main source (autobiography and unpublishedfragments of diary). Drawing inspiration from the spatial turn and applying the phenomenological ptrism of experience of certain places, the author attempts to present Bartol s self identfication reconfigured in alignment with his post-war existential topography stretched between Central European Ljubljana and Mediterranean Trieste.
Keywords: Slovenian literature in Italy / Bartol, Vladimir / cultural identity / Trieste / Mediterraneaness / Central Europe
Clanek obravnava fluidno samorazumevanje Vladimírja Bartola v povezavi s spremenljivimi kraji njegovega bivanja v prvem desetletju po drugi svetovni vojni. Stalno nihanje pisatelja med Trstom in Ljubljano so spremljale spremembe perspektív (manjšina/vecina) in kulturno-jezikovne dvojnosti, ki so slovensko književnost v Italiji zaznamovale z eksistencialističnim predznakom. Bartolova vrnitev vTrst je postavila pod vprašaj tako njegov odnos do prostora kot do časa oz. sobivanja preteklega habsburškega multikulturnega pristanišča v spominu z doživeto hladnovojno podobo mesta. Bivanje v Trstu je tako botrovalo obsežnim zapisom, ki predstavljajo glavni vir članka (gre za avtobiografijo in neobjavljene fragmente dnevnika). Pri predstavitvi Bartolove samoidentifikacije se avtorica navdihuje pri prostorskem obratu ter fenomenologiji. Na ta način skuša prikazati pisateljevo samorazumevanje, rekonfigurirano v skladu z njegovo povojno eksistencialno topografijo, razpeto med srednjeevropsko Ljubljane in sredozemskim Trstom.
Ključne besede: slovenska književnost v Italiji / Bartol, Vladimir / kulturna identiteta / Trst / mediteranskost / Srednja Evropa
Introduction: Triestine dualities
Where is Trieste? Where does it belong to? To the East, to the West or to a "a no-man's land"? (Campanile 147)-1 Geographical frontiers in this intermediate area between eastern and western Europe as well as metaphorical boundaries between reality and imagination have proved to be debatable and porous throughout...