Bartleby & Co. (Paperback) - Common
Marcelo, a humble clerk in a Barcelona office who might have come from a novel by Kafka, inhibits a world peopled by characters in literature. He once wrote a novel about the impossibility of love, but since then he has written nothing and a mental trauma has meant that he has been unable to put...
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Marcelo, a humble clerk in a Barcelona office who might have come from a novel by Kafka, inhibits a world peopled by characters in literature. He once wrote a novel about the impossibility of love, but since then he has written nothing and a mental trauma has meant that he has been unable to put pen to paper; he has become a 'Bartleby'.
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
0884332997128
ASIN: B00FFB58H4
Publish date: 2005
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
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...
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,...
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