Stratigraphy of the Walk and Post-anthropocentric Narratives
The Case of Antonio Moresco
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https://doi.org/10.54103/2037-2426/24922Keywords:
Anthropocene, Eco-narratology, Walking, Gli Increati, ecocriticism, StratigraphyAbstract
Drawing on material ecocriticism, new materialism and eco-narratology, this article proposes an analysis of the narrative structure of the novel Gli increati by Antonio Moresco as a case of “Anthropocene storytelling”. Specifically, I consider the practice of walking as a prompt for the novel complex temporal and spatial dimensions. My discussion situates within a broader reflection on the recent challenges posed by the concept of the Anthropocene to traditional modern epistemologies, based on conceptual dichotomies and linearity. I propose that the novel serves as an example of a narrative organised not by the principle of causality, but by what I call “stratigraphic logic”.
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