TRIESTE AS LITERARY SPACE: THE CITY AND ITS SURROUNDINGS IN WORKS BY ANNA HILARIA VON ECKHEL (ZWISCHEN WELLEN UND STEINEN), MARICA NADLIŠEK (NA OBALI), AND SCIPIO SLATAPER (IL MIO CARSO).

Throughout history many Germanophone authors have lived in Trieste. One was Hilaria von Eckhel (1873- 1948). Her collection of short prose Zwischen Wellen und Steinen, the works Il mio Carso by Italian Triestine author Scipio Slataper (1888-1915), and Na obali by Slovene Triestine author Marica Nadlišek (1867-1940) portray Trieste and its surroundings from three different perspectives. The article is a comparative analysis of the literary representations of Trieste and the region. The analysis uses the method of geocriticism to focus mainly on the categories of space and identit y in literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]