The author, in one of her last interviews, published in Paris Review, He warned: “Recently in Charlottesville, but throughout Europe and beyond, the far right is approaching, fortunately still on tiptoe and in the small stepswhich, of course, doesn’t make it any less dangerous. There are no small fascisms, there are no small benign NazismsThat is what I try to talk about in my books, the importance of remembering. In this age of aggressive revisionism, which tends to brainwash our already damaged and deformed minds, without memory, we are easy prey to manipulation, we lose identity.
And remembering is precisely what the grandson of Alfredo Tramer. This reader found his grandfather’s name on page 275 of Trieste. Today the project has been created The Voice of Names to remember the names of the 9,016 deported Italians: «Giving a voice to names is a way of making them eternal and alive.».
Link to the project #TheVoiceOfNames
Trieste In the press:
«A piece of high European culture». The New York Times.
«A window to another world, and a glimpse (the best) of contemporary Croatian literature, so unknown beyond its borders and, especially, in Spain.». The world.
«There are many forms of historical fiction… But few like that of Daša Drndić in Triestea book that opens wounds of Italy’s Nazi past». FantasticMag.
«A monumental work (in purpose and results) by Daša Drndić». Detour.
«Trieste I think it’s wonderful. (…) It’s been a long time since I read something of this level. (…) In some way (or in many ways), it sums up what I think Central European literature of the 20th century has achieved better than anyone else, which is a search for identity in border places. And in this novel, Daša Drndić raises it to the cube, achieves it in an even more complex way. For me it has been a discovery.». Eduardo Madina.
«The after-effects of Anni-Frid Lyngstad, the brunette from ABBA, being the illegitimate daughter of a German SS lieutenant during the Nazi occupation of Norway; that Ramón Serrano Suñer, Minister of Foreign Affairs and brother-in-law of Franco, was one of the clients of the Salon Kitty, the famous Berlin brothel that the Germans used to spy on its users; the role of Pope Pius XII and the Catholic Church with Jewish children; Herbert von Karajan’s Nazi past; the inflatable doll project for soldiers’ relief commissioned by Hitler; the family past of Jews fleeing the Holocaust of former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and playwright Tom Stoppard… These are just some of the dozens of pieces of the “puzzle”, as translator Simona Skrabec calls it, which forces the reader to construct the past so that it does not cease to exist, which Croatian writer Daša Drndić deconstructs in Trieste (Automatica Editorial), an atypical novel about Nazism». Anna Abella, The newspaper.
Source: https://algunoslibrosbuenos.com/trieste-de-dasa-drndic
