Bartleby & Co., Paperback by Vila-Matas, Enrique; Dunne, Jonathan (TRN), Bran...-image

Bartleby & Co., Paperback by Vila-Matas, Enrique; Dunne, Jonathan (TRN), Bran...

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Publication Year: 2007 Number of Pages: 178 Pages Language: English Book Title: Bartleby and Co ISBN: 9780811216982 Item Height: 0.5 in Topic: Hispanic & Latino, General, Literary Author: Enrique Vila-Matas Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation height: 0.5 in Item Length: 8 in Genre: Fiction, Literary Collections Item Weight: 8.3 Oz Item Width: 5.4 in width: 5.4 in Format: Perfect

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Bartleby & Co., Paperback by Vila-Matas, Enrique; Dunne, Jonathan (TRN), Bran.... Bartleby & Co., Paperback by Vila-Matas, Enrique; Dunne, Jonathan (TRN), ISBN 0811216985, ISBN-13 9780811216982, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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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