Bartleby & Co.
ISBN-13:
9780811216982
ISBN-10:
0811216985
Author:
Enrique Vila-Matas
Publication date:
2007
Publisher:
New Directions
Format:
Paperback
178 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780811216982
ISBN-10:
0811216985
Author:
Enrique Vila-Matas
Publication date:
2007
Publisher:
New Directions
Format:
Paperback
178 pages
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Bartleby & Co. (ISBN-13: 9780811216982 and ISBN-10: 0811216985), written by authors
Enrique Vila-Matas, was published by New Directions in 2007.
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A marvelous novel by one of Spain's most important contemporary authors, in which a clerk in a Barcelona office takes us on a romping tour of world literature.
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.We would LOVE it if you could help us and other readers by reviewing the book
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