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1 online resource (264 pages).

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Series

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

Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgement -- 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 -- 4. The disappearing act: Moving towards the margins -- 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 -- 6. The desert for conclusion -- References

Summary

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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JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access

Language

In English.

Subject

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

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

20th-century Realism.

Antihelden.

Antiheroes.

Landscapes.

Landschaft.

Realismus.

Romanticism.

Romantik.

Other Form:

Print version: 9783110617665

Print version: 9783110617573

Standard No.

10.1515/9783110617580 doi

ISBN

9783110617580 (electronic bk.)

3110617587 (electronic bk.)