Bartleby y compañía

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. Untitled-2 1 Untitled-99 2 Untitled-3 3 Untitled-4 4 Untitled-5 5 Untitled-6 6 Untitled-7 7 Untitled-8 8 Untitled-9 9 Untitled-10 10 Untitled-11 11 Untitled-12 12 Untitled-13 13 Untitled-14 14 Untitled-15 15 Untitled-16 16 Untitled-17 17 Untitled-18 18 Untitled-19 19 Untitled-20 20 Untitled-21 21 Untitled-22 22 Untitled-23 23 Untitled-24 24 Untitled-25 25 Untitled-26 26 Untitled-27 27 Untitled-28 28 Untitled-29 29 Untitled-30 30 Untitled-31 31 Untitled-32 32 Untitled-33 33 Untitled-34 34 Untitled-35 35 Untitled-36 36 Untitled-37 37 Untitled-38 38 Untitled-39 39 Untitled-40 40 Untitled-41 41 Untitled-42 42 Untitled-43 43 Untitled-44 44 Untitled-45 45 Untitled-46 46 Untitled-47 47 Untitled-48 48 Untitled-49 49 Untitled-50 50 Untitled-51 51 Untitled-52 52 Untitled-53 53 Untitled-54 54 Untitled-55 55 Untitled-56 56 Untitled-57 57 Untitled-58 58 Untitled-59 59 Untitled-60 60 Untitled-61 61 Untitled-62 62 Untitled-63 63 Untitled-64 64 Untitled-65 65 Untitled-66 66 Untitled-67 67 Untitled-68 68 Untitled-69 69 Untitled-70 70 Untitled-71 71 Untitled-72 72 Untitled-73 73 Untitled-74 74 Untitled-75 75 Untitled-76 76 Untitled-77 77 Untitled-78 78 Untitled-79 79 Untitled-80 80 Untitled-81 81 Untitled-82 82 Untitled-83 83 Untitled-84 84 Untitled-85 85 Untitled-86 86 Untitled-87 87 Untitled-88 88 Untitled-89 89 Untitled-90 90 Untitled-91 91 Untitled-92 92 Untitled-93 93 Untitled-94 94 Untitled-95 95 Untitled-96 96 Untitled-97 97 Untitled-98 98 Untitled-100 99 "Marcelo, a clerk in a Barcelona office who might himself have emerged from a novel by Kafka, inhabits a world peopled by characters from literature. He once wrote a novel about the impossibility of love, but since then he has been able to write nothing, and a nervous breakdown has meant that he has not even been able to put pen to paper. He has, in short, become a "Bartleby", so named after the scrivener in Herman Melville's short story who, when asked to do anything, always replied, "I would prefer not to."" Tells The Story Of A Hunchback Who Is A Failed Writer That Has No Luck With Women. He Is A Self-described Bartleby, Named After The Herman Melville Character; Someone Who, When Asked To Reveal Information About Themselves, Will Respond That They Would Prefer Not To. Enrique Vila-matas ; Translated From The Spanish By Jonathan Dunne. Originally Published : London : Harvill Press, C2004. Issued In Both Hardback And Paperback.