@book{publication-4318,
  year = {2019},
  publisher = {De Gruyter},
  isbn = {978-3-11-061757-3},
  series = {Latin American Literatures in the World / Literaturas Latinoamericanas en el Mundo 2},
  edition = {1},
  url = {https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/509281},
  address = {Berlin/Boston},
  title = {Landscape’s Revenge: The ecology of failure in Robert Walser and Bernardo Carvalho},
  author = {Caio Yurgel},
  note = {Open Access},
  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.

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  keywords = {Antihelden,Realismus,Landschaft,Romantik,Literaturwissenschaft,Sprachübergreifend,Spanisch},
}
