Rivista – Revija št. 119
Articoli dell’edizione 119 – Aprile 2025
A MAN FROM THE BORDER
This text is an extended version of the introductory greeting before the lecture by the Croatian writer Miljenko Jergović entitled "What is the new reality today?" at the Goriška Cultural Centre on 6 March 2025.
METASITE
No one dies in Trieste. The great Italo Calvino could easily rank it among his Invisible Cities
AT THE BORDER
China Mieville, in her novel "The City and the City", imagined twin cities, Besźel "of Eastern Europe" and UI Qoma "of the Middle East", actually two twin cities, but separated by a border that functions as a kind of confused veil - an "iron curtain",
ISONZO SOČA 1989 – 2025 A LONG ADVENTURE. DEDICATED TO DARIO STASI
The magazine Isonzo Soča, founded in 1989 thanks to its creator and editor-in-chief Dario Stasi, ideally and economically supported by the publisher Transmedia
WHO FEARS PEACE IN THE DESERT OF THE TARTARS?
There is no doubt that the turning point impressed on the world by US President Donald Trump is alarming.
THAT WE WILL NOT BE ASHAMED IN FRONT OF OUR GRANDCHILDREN
Under the pouring rain on a cold February afternoon, Guy and Hammoudi made their way from the station in Piazza de Europe to the middle of the square, stuck on the Vecchiet mosaic.
ACOUSTIC CANNONS DO NOT STOP YOUNG PEOPLE IN SERBIA
The institutions of the European Union are divided, there are those who support the need for rearmament, those who support defense, without however explaining the practical difference between one concept and another.
A BORDER THAT NO LONGER EXISTS
To the tourist who arrives in Nova Gorica/Gorizia European Capital of Culture amazed not to find the well-known border network in a newly finished Transalpina/Evrope square, all that remains is to turn his gaze to the two cities, stepsisters rather than twins.
MEMORY DEFECTS? NO, IT’S HISTORY THAT’S MISSING!
We have long since learned the difference between memory and history.
MUSSOLINI IS NOT MY FELLOW CITIZEN
Let's start with a date: February 26, 2025. On this day, the Municipality of Salò revoked the honorary citizenship of Benito Mussolini.
IS THE SOLKAN STONE BRIDGE ALSO A CULTURAL VALUE?
The Solkan Railway Stone Bridge over the Soča River, built in 1906, is not just any bridge. It is the bridge with the largest stone arch among all bridges in the world.
THE NEANDERTHAL FLUTE FROM DIVJE BABE IN NOVA GORICA
On Saturday 8 February, thanks to Boštjan Gombač, many Italians but also as many Slovenes gathered in Kardelj Square, next to the Town Hall of Nova Gorica, were able to learn about the Neanderthal flute, discovered in a cave called "Divje Babe".
ANCIENT SLOVENIAN CARNIVAL TRADITIONS ALONG THE SOČA RIVER
Carnival is a popular festival among Slovenians and, especially in places that are a little more isolated or linked to rural life, it still retains tangible traces of an ancient past, made up of rituals and symbols that not even Christianity has been able to
LATEST SHAME DECREE ON ASBESTOS
On 5 December 2023, Ministers Giorgetti (Economy and Finance) and Calderone (Labour and Social Policies) signed the Interministerial Decree on the Fund for Asbestos Victims.
BRIDGE AND NORTH EAST – A STARTING POINT FOR THE FUTURE CITY
After many years, I returned to bring music to Gorizia, resuming the thread of a discourse that in the 90s had produced ten consecutive editions of the "Incontri Jazz" festival, bringing musicians of great national and international level to Gorizia.
BOOKSHOP CAFÉ MAKS
On February 21, 2024, the Maks Bookstore opened its doors in Ravnikarjev mesto in Nova Gorica on the former Road No. 5, today Delpinova Street.
ZRCALO / MIRROR BY ANNIBEL CUNOLDI ATTEMS
In Nova Gorica, the Maks bookshop - café hosted in January the installation by the Gorizia artist Annibel Cunoldi Attems entitled "Zrcalo / Specchio", which can also be seen from the outside.
VIA CRUCIS
It was 9 a.m. but the heat and stench were already unbearable in the cell dug into the rock occupied by Disham and three other prisoners.
REPORT ON THE “SYUM-BÀLLO” PROJECT
"Syum-bàllo" is the etymology of the word "symbol" and means "to put together", to unite, to create a bond.
THE D’ANNUNZIO OF THE BRILLIANT BEZINOVIĆ
A good dose of irony and a satirical gaze were needed to demolish in an hour and a half all the fascist rhetoric, on which the right wing still feeds today, in government of cities, regions and the entire country.
ART BEYOND THE VISIBLE IS NOW ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE IN KROMBERK
The Goriška Museum and its partners opened the largest international tactile gallery in Slovenia.
BRIDGES OVER THE BURDENS OF HISTORY
I'll start with the desire of the author of the dialogues from this book Jernej Šček from the book Café Italy (2023, ZTT), "Let's be bridges, not walls."
GORICI NEWS
The dual Gorici unites in a single word the two urban realities, that of Nova Gorica and that of Gorizia, together European Capital of Culture.
THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN SAYING ONESELF AND BEING
Eight January. 2025. There is a month to go. The rain seems to ask me to choose.
