Landscape's revenge : the ecology of failure in Robert Walser and Bernardo Carvalho / Caio Yurgel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yurgel, Caio, author.

Series:

Latin American literatures in the world ; v. 2.

Latin American literatures in the world ; volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carvalho, Bernardo, 1960---Criticism and interpretation.

Carvalho, Bernardo.

Walser, Robert, 1878-1956--Criticism and interpretation.

Walser, Robert.

Carvalho, Bernardo, 1960-.

Walser, Robert, 1878-1956.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 256 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]

Summary:

"Drawing from diverse critical traditions from Latin-America and Europe, this work posits the landscape as the pathway to the hidden, dark depths of Robert Walser's and Bernardo Cavalho's literary projects. Behind the deceivingly idyllic or exotic sceneries lies a fictional stage riddled with irony and failure, with anti-heroes and outcasts who, with their dying breaths, narrate a world that is slowly undoing itself."--Back cover.

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

3.1. Walser: Träumen (1913-1920) and the short prose

3.2. Carvalho: Aberração (1993) and the early novels

4. The disappearing act : moving towards the margins

4.1. Walser: Fritz Kochers Aufsätze (1904)

4.2. Carvalho: Mongólia (2003)

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

5.1. Walser: Jakob von Gunten (1909)

5.2. Carvalho: Nove Noites (2002)

6. The desert for conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-256).

ISBN:

9783110617573

3110617579

OCLC:

1086325754