Fondamenta degli incurabili: (On Great Time)

Abstract

This article aims to understand and to carefully study the notion of great time, which is a relational anthropological concept, just as most of Bakhtin’s concepts. According to M. Bakhtin’s oeuvre, our precarious immortality is assured by the semiotic nature of memory, which can register virtual or material marks of otherness through conventional signs. In this sense, the soul is also language. By collecting “odd coincidences,” the article places in dialogue authors from different chronotopes, such as Francisco Delicado, Cervantes, Sterne, Pushkin, and Joseph Brodsky, and highlights that, as this dialogue is established, the researcher’s perspective allows the scientific investigation to enter Bakhtin’s great time.