Stelio Mattioni (1921 – 1997) is one of most original writers of the twentieth century Triestine literature. Discovered by the Bobi Bazlen, critic with a great knowledge of Mitteleuropean literature and editorial consultant for the publisher Einaudi in the 1960s. Mattioni published his novels with the best-known national publishing houses such as the prestigious Adelphi. Mattioni, like Svevo, was a clerk and found the themes of his stories in his surrounding reality. His characters are found in the streets and homes of Trieste, which is Mattioni’s usual setting, often artistically transformed in his books. Mattioni’s Trieste is a weird and mysterious city, with never-ending streets, shut doors, gardens and unsuspected realities behind anonymous facades. This is why his books can represent very good itineraries of the city for those who are fascinated by the real and literary image of Trieste and want to experience those places of the city as through the writer’s eyes.
