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    De Gruyter | Berlin ; : De Gruyter,
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    edocfu_9958975938002883
    Format: 1 online resource (264 pages).
    ISBN: 3-11-061758-7
    Series Statement: Latin American Literatures in the World / Literaturas Latinoamericanas en el Mundo ; 2
    Content: 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.
    Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Dissertation Freie Universität Berlin 2016. , 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 , In English.
    Additional Edition: ISBN 3-11-061757-9
    Language: English
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