Bartleby & Co.
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- Synopsis
- Translated from the Spanish by Jonathan Dunne. In Bartleby & Co., Enrique Vila-Matas tackles the theme of silence in literature: the writers and non-writers who, like the scrivener Bartleby of the Herman Melville story, in answer to any question or demand, replies: "I would prefer not to." Addressing such "artists of refusal" as Robert Walser, Robert Musil, Arthur Rimbaud, Marcel Duchamp, Herman Melville, and J. D. Salinger, Bartleby & Co. could be described as a meditation: a walking tour through the annals of literature. Written as a series of footnotes (a non-work itself), Bartleby embarks on such questions as why do we write, why do we exist? The answer lies in the novel itself: told from the point of view of a hermetic hunchback who has no luck with women, and is himself unable to write, Bartleby is utterly engaging, a work of profound and philosophical beauty.
- Copyright:
- 2004
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 178 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780811215916
- Publisher:
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Date of Addition:
- 04/02/12
- Copyrighted By:
- Jonathan Dunne
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Rick Costa
- Proofread By:
- KS
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.