Bartleby & Co. EPUB
by Enrique Vila-Matas
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In Bartleby & Co., an enormously enjoyable novel, 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.
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- Pages:178 pages
- Publisher:New Directions
- Publication Date:23/05/2007
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- ISBN:9780811221535
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:178 pages
- Publisher:New Directions
- Publication Date:23/05/2007
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- ISBN:9780811221535