Landscape’s Revenge: The ecology of failure in Robert Walser and Bernardo Carvalho

Caio Yurgel

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2019

Landscape’s Revenge

The ecology of failure in Robert Walser and Bernardo Carvalho

Caio Yurgel

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

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110617580

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About this book

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.

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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgement Open Access Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
1. Introduction Open Access Download PDF	1
2. Literature review: Landscape’s revenge Open Access Download PDF	11
3. From the unreal to the apocalypse: The landscape as a function of language and narrative in Walser and Carvalho Open Access Download PDF	47
4. The disappearing act: Moving towards the margins Open Access Download PDF	110
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 Open Access Download PDF	158
6. The desert for conclusion Open Access Download PDF	242
References Open Access Download PDF	248

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars (Comparative Literature; Latin-American Studies; Germanistik; Romanticism; Anthropology)
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 256
Keywords: Romanticism; 20th-century Realism; Landscape; Anti-heroes.

eBook

Published: November 5, 2018
ISBN: 9783110617580

Hardcover

Published: November 5, 2018
ISBN: 9783110617573