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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Vila-Matas, Enrique ; Dunne, Jonathan
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| Publisher: |
New Directions Publishing Corporation
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| Date: |
04/01/2007
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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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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