MESTO V ZALIVU

AUDIO BOOKS

Reader: Matija Rupel

Directed by: Ana Krauthaker

Duration: 7 ur in 30 min

Format: Digitalno

Code: 119095

EAN: 3838898119095

At ZKP RTV Slovenia, in collaboration with Radio Slovenia – Program Ars, we are publishing the audiobook Mesto v zalivu (The City in the Bay) by the Trieste-based writer, intellectual, and one of the most translated Slovenian authors, Boris Pahor. The novel tells the story of a Slovene from Trieste who was conscripted into the Italian army and returns to his hometown of Trieste after the capitulation of Italy. In the audiobook, the novel is interpreted by dramatic actor Matija Rupel, directed by Ana Krauthaker, and recorded by sound engineers Boštjan Simčič, Mateja Grebenjak, Urban Gruden, Matjaž Miklič, and Sonja Strenar. "Rudi Leban, a Trieste Slovene conscripted into the Italian army, returns home after the Italian capitulation in September 1943, only to find that the German army is now there. He decides to fight against evil and for his Slovenian identity—but how? In the forests or in his hometown? During the war, the city in the bay is darkened, 'as if covered by a mourning veil'. He realizes that he will not find refuge there, yet increasingly feels that it is precisely in occupied Trieste where he is most needed," wrote literary editor Vlado Motnikar about the work. In the dedication at the beginning of the novel, first published in 1955, Boris Pahor wrote: "In memory of all those whose lives were taken by our quest for identity."

Boris Pahor
Boris Pahor (1913–2022), a writer and tireless fighter against all forms of oppression, a witness to the horrors caused by fascism, Nazism, and also communism, remained a humanist until the very end of his life at nearly 109 years of age. He dedicated most of his literary work to Trieste and the Slovenian identity within it. Although Europe only came to know him later in life, he is among the most translated Slovenian authors. He wrote from personal experience—he witnessed the burning of the National Hall and fascist violence as a child and young man, and during the war he was sent to a concentration camp for participating in the resistance movement. His entire struggle for personal and national identity found its realistic yet lyrical reflection in novels such as Mesto v zalivu (The City in the Bay), Nekropola (Necropolis), and others.
– Vlado Motnikar

Kataložni zapis o publikaciji (CIP) pripravili v Narodni in univerzitetni knjižnici v Ljubljani
COBISS.SI-ID 240972035
ISBN 978-961-7250-01-5 (ZKP RTV Slovenija, MP3)