03922nam 22007335 450 991030974000332120190723020930.03-11-061758-710.1515/9783110617580(CKB)4100000007127706(WaSeSS)IndRDA00124843(DE-B1597)500009(OCoLC)1076476178(DE-B1597)9783110617580EBL7015083(AU-PeEL)EBL7015083(EXLCZ)99410000000712770620190723d2018 fg engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLandscape's Revenge The ecology of failure in Robert Walser and Bernardo Carvalho /Caio YurgelBerlin ;Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]©20191 online resource (264 pages)Latin American Literatures in the World / Literaturas Latinoamericanas en el Mundo ;2Description based upon print version of record.3-11-061757-9 Includes bibliographical references.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 -- ReferencesLandscape, 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.Latin American literatures in the world ;Volume 2.20th-century RealismAnti-heroesAntiheldenLandscapeLandschaftRealismusRomanticismRomantikLITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguesebisacsh20th-century Realism.Anti-heroes.Landscape.Romanticism.20th-century Realism.Anti-heroes.Antihelden.Landscape.Landschaft.Realismus.Romanticism.Romantik.LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese.869.342Yurgel Caio, 974288DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910309740003321Landscape's Revenge2218117UNINA