SecondMany of the tourists at Miramare Palace near Trieste are traces of “Princess Sissi”. When they enter the XX room, they will experience a sudden change in style. The Habsburg interior, which had been popular until then, was replaced by clear Art Deco furniture. The lord of the castle Amedio di Savoia-Aosta and his wife Anna who moved in in 1931 Von Orleans wanted to show that they have arrived in modernity. This includes rationality, speed, and expansion.The Duke who participated in the Battle of Libya Benito Mussolinis Participated in the 1930s, commanded air divisions in nearby Gorizia and lived in the castle, which was built in the dream place of the Gulf of Trieste. Unfortunately, the Archduke Maximilian (executed in 1867) For the emperor of Mexico) and his wife Charlotte soon became insane Belgium. In 1937, Duke Amadeo became the governor of the Abyssinian colony in Italy. After Italy was defeated by British troops on the Amba Alago River, he was captured and died of malaria and tuberculosis in Nairobi in March 1942. We returned to him.
A year later, Miramare was occupied by the German Wehrmacht and used again for representative purposes, such as the “Führer’s Birthday” reception on April 20, 1945, the most famous Trieste writer Claudio In his last novel so far, Claudio Magris, “The Program Stops”, is painted with a strong carnival color. Magris’s theme was the cooperation between the Trieste bourgeoisie and the Nazis, who opened a “police detention center” in a former rice mill in the south of the city, which has not been punished in the title. Odilo Globocnik, the superior SS and police leader from Trist, once wreaked havoc in the Treblinka extermination camp and became the commander of the Risiera di San Sabba camp. In the novel, he is one of the staff of the ghost celebration shortly before the end of the war. Guerrillas and resistance fighters were tortured and murdered in Risiera, and today is the subject of memorials and other novels (such as Thomas Harlan’s obsessive “Heroes Cemetery” in 2006 or Mathias Enard’s suffocating “Zone” in 2010), Jewish Was rounded up and deported to an extermination camp and looted the stored items.
Death in the air
The original drying furnace of the rice mill was converted into a crematorium by the designers of Treblinka and Sobibor Crematorium, connected to a 40-meter-high chimney. The pungent smell of Trieste’s body plays an important role in Magris’ novel, which mixes historical events with fictional elements. The red line in the book is a collector’s attempt to rebuild the prisoner graffiti on the wall of Risiera’s cell that was painted after the war. Luisa Brooks, the curator of an anti-war museum (actually built in Trieste), is worried about this failed project.
Given the current debate about the similarities and differences between the two massacre And colonial genocide, it’s interesting that Claudio Magris (Claudio Magris, not only Trieste but also an outstanding historian throughout Central Europe, established this connection in his 2015 book The side line next to the Luisa Brooks story is about Luisa de Navarette. She is related to her name. She is a historical figure from Puerto Rico in the 16th century. She married a white woman as a slave and was accused of witchcraft, but thanks to Her wisdom escaped the Inquisition. On the other hand, Luisa Brooks is the daughter of the fictional Jewish Sara. She lost her mother in Risiera when she was young. She is A black sergeant in the U.S. Army, Sara met her when she was working as an interpreter at the Allied headquarters. Magris described it this way: “This is the result of two exiles, a Jew and a black—two people had to cross the desert. , Crossing the sea, unable to sing Zion’s songs in a foreign country, but they have to be desperate.”
