Going after the liquid chronotope: “towards the river mouth” performing Celati's literary map | International Conference – Waterscapes and Historic Canals as Cultural Heritage Session n. 6 – Imaging Waterscapes: Representations and Narrations | March 2015, Venice (original) (raw)

Almost 30 years after the publication of Gianni Celati's Verso la foce the aim of our presentation is to develop the concept of the river Po as a “liquid chronotope” (Conte 2008, Bauman 2000, Bakhtin 1975) that works both on the metaphorical-narrative and the physical-geographical level. On the one hand the river Po works as a narrative line and guides Celati's narration replacing the structuring function of the plot; on the other hand it represents a geographical element that orients both the narrator's and our perfomative tour through the “new Italian landscape”.