Towards the river's mouth / Gianni Celati -- Gianni Celati's Towards the river's mouth: the experience of place between writing and photography / Marina Spunta -- Sight, language, time: to be surrounded by the world / Monica Seger -- Gianni Celati's Strada provinciale delle anime: a "silent" film about "nothing" / Rebecca West -- The posthuman imagination of Gianni Celati's cinema / Matteo Gilebbi -- Restoring the imagination of place: narrative reinhabitation and the Po Valley / Serenella Iovino -- Forms of impegno in Towards the river's mouth / Michele Ronchi Stefanati -- Witnessing the Po River: disorientation and estrangement in Primo Levi and Gianni Celati / Damiano Benvegnù -- A tale of two Giannis: writing as rememoration / Thomas Harrison -- Walking in the open enchanted by the overheard: two reflections on Towards the river's mouth / Massimo Rizzante -- Introduction to paesology / Franco Arminio.