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Enrique Vila-matas
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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.
178 pages
Media | Bøker Innbunden bok (Bok med hard rygg og stivt omslag) |
Utgitt | 17. desember 2004 |
ISBN13 | 9780811215916 |
Utgivere | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
Antall sider | 178 |
Mål | 144 × 213 × 20 mm · 344 g |
Språk | Engelsk |
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