{"product_id":"landscapes-revenge-the-ecology-of-failure-in-robert-walser-and-bernardo-carvalho-9783110617573","title":"Landscape's Revenge: The Ecology of Failure in Robert Walser and Bernardo Carvalho","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Caio Yurgel\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: de Gruyter\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - Spanish \u0026amp; Portuguese\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"de Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47780309008535,"sku":"9783110617573","price":13847.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783110617573.webp?v=1778044295","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/landscapes-revenge-the-ecology-of-failure-in-robert-walser-and-bernardo-carvalho-9783110617573","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}