Cary, Joseph — A Ghost in Trieste

University of Chicago Press First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. 8vo., xi+289pp., illustrated with drawings by Nicholas Read. Fine in fine dust jacket. SynopsisGem of the Adriatic, Trieste sparkled and beckoned through the pages of poets and novelists. Drawn there in search of literary ghosts, of the poet Umberto Saba and the novelists Italo Svevo and James Joyce, Joseph Cary found instead a city with an imaginative life of its own, the one that rises, tantalizing from the pages of this book. The story of Cary's travels, A Ghost in Trieste, is also a tale of discovery and transformation, as the bustling world of port and airplane, baggage and trams and trains becomes the landscape of history and literature, language and art, psychoanalysis and the self. Fine Fine 1st Edition 1st Printing Chicago 8vo 299