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Bartleby & Co.
Enrique Vila-matas
Bartleby & Co.
Enrique Vila-matas
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.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | April 1, 2007 |
ISBN13 | 9780811216982 |
Publishers | New Directions |
Pages | 178 |
Dimensions | 134 × 203 × 14 mm · 226 g |
Language | English |
Contributor | Jonathan Dunne |
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