Bartleby & Co
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 ans…
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Weitere Autoren: Dunne, Jonathan (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-1591-6
- EAN: 9780811215916
- Produktnummer: 9169019
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 178 S.
- Masse: H21.1 cm x B13.9 cm x D2.5 cm 379 g
- Gewicht: 379
Über den Autor
ENRIQUE VILA-MATAS was born in Barcelona. He has received countless prizes and written numerous award-winning novels, including Bartleby & Co., Montano's Malady, Never Any End to Paris, and Dublinesque.
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