NDLI: Art, Science, and the New World in Daniel Kehlmann’s Die Vermessung der Welt and César Aira’s Un episodio en la vida del pintor viajero

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Holmes, Amanda
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	This article interprets recent historical novels by Daniel Kehlmann and César Aira that represent Latin American space as intimately connected with art and fiction. Kehlmann’s Die Vermessung der Welt explores New World topographies to argue that scientific and artistic approaches to the understanding of the environment are similar, while Aira’s Un episodio en la vida del pintor viajero represents Latin America as a creative territory that violently resists scientific European incursions. Both novels remove Latin American landscapes from their sociopolitical contexts and conflate them with the artificiality of fiction. This perception represents a perspective on Latin America from outside its borders: the fantasized landscape serves to exoticize the region.
Starting Page	195
Ending Page	207
Page Count	13
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00282677
Journal	Neophilologus
Volume Number	94
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15728668
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2009-12-30
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Daniel Kehlmann César Aira Landscape and literature The historical novel The exotic Syntax Comparative Literature Philology Comparative Linguistics Historical Linguistics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Linguistics and Language Literature and Literary Theory

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Art, Science, and the New World in Daniel Kehlmann’s Die Vermessung der Welt and César Aira’s Un episodio en la vida del pintor viajero