Significance of the theme of the voice in
'Narratori delle Pianure'
Poetics, Structure, Post-modernist traits
Errance, less structured prose (away from Calvino's
style) Absence of the home as an anchor,
displacement
A criticism of post-war development which is eradicating tradition
Lack of a straightforward storyline, an open-ended structure
Post-modernist abandonment of control and a strong subject position
Poetics: de-subjectivisation, de-centralisation
Gianni Celati Postmodernista Problematico:
Lettura di Notizie ai Naviganti (Alessandro Viti)
Verso la Foce quotation (p.57)
Place and Space, the plains and Narration
Inspired by walking and getting to know somewhere that at first glance seems desolate
ppt slide 15 - The plains as a frontier between the past and the present (rural/traditional vs.
modern/industrial). 'A journey to recover traces of the past and a sense of shared experience'.
"The plains as a metaphor for the narrative
text. Writing = walking the landscape. A
more relaxed attitude to literature
ppt. slides 24 Place and narration - stories emanating from a place
Similarity to Dante: errance and chance encounters
The significance of the map - link between place and narrative?
Il ritorno del viaggiatore
Orality and Narrative style, Linguistic features
Syntactic structure (look this up) lots of detail in ppt
41/42 about linguistic tools used to replicate orality
Ombre e fantasmi nel remoto della
"bassa". Deissi e passato prossimo nei
Narratori delle Pianure di Gianni Celati
(Francesca Gatti)
Shared context, oral exchange, narrator and listeners are co-present
Oral tradition, sense of community which is vanishing. Morals?
Untrustworthy narrator ('come mi hanno raccontato' etc.)