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Scipio Slataper described himself as Slav, and wished to be Slav and a bar-barian. 1 In 1912, when he was only 24 years old, he published Il mio carso , a novel which, despite being subtitled ‘lyrical autobiography’, begins with a dramatic movement in three parts, in which ‘I’ is opposed to ‘you’, ‘savagery’ to ‘Italianità’, and the ‘fatherland’ to ‘here’: I would like to tell you: I was born in the Carso, in a hut with a thatched roof, blackened by rain and smoke … I would like to tell you: I was born in Croatia, in the great oak forest … I would like to tell you: I was born on the Moravian plain and I used to run like the hare … Then I came here, I tried to tame myself, I learned Italian, I chose my friends from among the most educated youth; but soon I must return to my fatherland, for here I don’t feel too good. 2 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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