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Record Nr.

UNISA996309077703316

Autore

Yurgel Caio

Titolo

Landscape's Revenge : The ecology of failure in Robert Walser and Bernardo Carvalho / / Caio Yurgel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2018]

©2019

ISBN

3-11-061758-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 pages)

Collana

Latin American Literatures in the World / Literaturas Latinoamericanas en el Mundo ; ; 2

Disciplina

869.342

Soggetti

20th-century Realism

Anti-heroes

Antihelden

Landscape

Landschaft

Realismus

Romanticism

Romantik

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature review: Landscape's revenge -- 3. From the unreal to the apocalypse: The landscape as a function of language and narrative in Walser and Carvalho -- 4. The disappearing act: Moving towards the margins -- 5. How to do things with fire: The desert as landscape's final revenge and as the culmination of Walser's and Carvalho's literary projects -- 6. The desert for conclusion -- References

Sommario/riassunto

Landscape, as it appears and is described throughout the works of Bernardo Carvalho and Robert Walser, provides an excellent-yet virtually unexplored-pathway to the authors' literary projects. The landscape functions here as a synthetic and unifying figure that triggers, at first, through the analysis of its description per se, the main and most evident elements of the authors' works. However, when



sustained as a methodological figure beyond the scope of its own description, the landscape soon reveals a darker, far more fascinating and far less explored side of the authors' oeuvres: a vengeful, seemingly defeatist resentment against the status quo, which gives way to the more latent and biting elements of the authors' prose, such as irony, the unheimlich, an anti-heroic agenda, the apocalyptic aesthetics of a disaster-prone fictional world, as well as an understanding of history and literature through the figures of failure and marginality. By drawing from diverse critical traditions from Latin-America and Europe, this comparative text seeks to unravel, in all of its complexity and scope, the fictional stage upon which Walser's and Carvalho's characters narrate, with their dying breath, a world that is slowly undoing itself.