Landscape's Revenge (eBook)

The ecology of failure in Robert Walser and Bernardo Carvalho

Caio Yurgel (Autor)

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2018 | 1. Auflage
264 Seiten
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.KG (Verlag)
978-3-11-061758-0 (ISBN)

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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.

Caio Yurgel, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany / Peking University, China.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.11.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 3-11-061758-7 / 3110617587
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-061758-0 / 9783110617580