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Bartleby & Co. - Enrique Vila-Matas
Bartleby & Co.
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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... show more
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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Format: papier
Pages no: 178
Edition language: English
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Gatta ci cova
Gatta ci cova rated it
4.0
Recensisco? Preferirei di no. Al limite scrivo una nota a piè di pagina. Racconti? Saggio? Romanzo? Testo visionario? Certamente un gran viaggio nel labirinto della negazione. Con tanto vero e altrettanto verosimile. Mi sono commossa con la nota su Juan Ramon Jimenez e ho riso con la vicenda su Sa...
so many books, so little time
so many books, so little time rated it
5.0 Bartleby & Co.
An incredibly fun read!
MochaMike
MochaMike rated it
5 stars for the idea. 5 stars for the execution. 5 stars for the lasting consideration that will haunt my reading. 5 stars for the ones many of you won’t (and, perhaps, shouldn’t) give it yourself.Before you read this volume, if you should choose to, read or re-read Bartleby, the Scrivener, unless,...
M Sarki
M Sarki rated it
I spoke of this book in a review I had written for a different Vila-Matas title. My review can be found here:http://mewlhouse.hubpages.com/hub/Never-Any-End-To-Paris-Enrique-Vila-Matas
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