{"product_id":"landscapes-revenge-caio-yurgel-9783110617573","title":"Landscape's Revenge: The Ecology of Failure in Robert Walser and Bernardo Carvalho","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Caio Yurgel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3110617579\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783110617573\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e de Gruyter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/05\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.80d","brand":"Caio Yurgel","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48089078923519,"sku":"9783110617573","price":152.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6e53ecb7-cba6-42f7-8881-2f1d20c9bc26.jpg?v=1769108079","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/landscapes-revenge-caio-yurgel-9783110617573","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}