Landscape's revenge

• Verfasst von: Yurgel, Caio [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Landscape's revenge
• Titelzusatz: the ecology of failure in Robert Walser and Bernardo Carvalho
• Verf.angabe: Caio Yurgel
• Verlagsort: Berlin ; Boston
• Verlag: De Gruyter
• E-Jahr: 2018
• Jahr: November 2018
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Latin American Literatures in the World / Literaturas Latinoamericanas en el Mundo ; 2
• Fussnoten: Erscheint als Open Access bei De Gruyter
• Schrift/Sprache: In English
• ISBN: 978-3-11-061766-5
• ISBN: 978-3-11-061758-0
• DOI: doi:10.1515/9783110617580
• Schlagwörter: (s)Landschaft <Motiv> / (p)Walser, Robert / (p)Carvalho, Bernardo
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Dokumenttyp: Hochschulschrift
• Sprache: eng
• Reproduktion: Available in another form
• Reproduktion: Available in another form
• K10plus-PPN: 1066748187
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

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