Bartleby & Co. - Brossura

Vila-Matas, Enrique

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0811216985 ISBN 13: 9780811216982

Casa editrice: New Directions, 2007

Riassunto

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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: New Directions
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0811216985
• ISBN 13: 9780811216982
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 178