Bartleby & Co.New Directions Publishing, 23.05.2007 - 178 Seiten 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. |
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... asked where he was born or given a job to do or asked to reveal something about himself, responds always by saying, "I would prefer not to." For some time now I have been investigating the frequent examples of Bartleby's syndrome in ...
... asked where he was born or given a job to do or asked to reveal something about himself, responds always by saying, "I would prefer not to." For some time now I have been investigating the frequent examples of Bartleby's syndrome in ...
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... asked him why he no longer wrote, Rulfo would say, "Well, my Uncle Celerino died and it was he who told me the stories." His Uncle Celerino was no fabrication. He existed in real life. He was a drunk who made a living confirming ...
... asked him why he no longer wrote, Rulfo would say, "Well, my Uncle Celerino died and it was he who told me the stories." His Uncle Celerino was no fabrication. He existed in real life. He was a drunk who made a living confirming ...
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... asked this question at any time and so I was ready with the answer: "No. Monterroso writes essays, cows, fables and flies. He doesn't write much, but he writes." Having said this, I woke up. I was then overcome by a huge desire to ...
... asked this question at any time and so I was ready with the answer: "No. Monterroso writes essays, cows, fables and flies. He doesn't write much, but he writes." Having said this, I woke up. I was then overcome by a huge desire to ...
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... asked Hölderlin to write some lines on any one topic, and he asked me if I would have him write on Greece, on Spring or on the Spirit of Time. I replied the last of these three. And then, with what might be described as a youthful fire ...
... asked Hölderlin to write some lines on any one topic, and he asked me if I would have him write on Greece, on Spring or on the Spirit of Time. I replied the last of these three. And then, with what might be described as a youthful fire ...
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... asked me, if I valued his friendship, never to repeat such a compliment. He, Robert Walser, was a walking nobody and he wished to be forgotten." Walser's entire work, including his ambiguous silence of twenty-eight years, is a ...
... asked me, if I valued his friendship, never to repeat such a compliment. He, Robert Walser, was a walking nobody and he wished to be forgotten." Walser's entire work, including his ambiguous silence of twenty-eight years, is a ...
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