Bartleby And Co (Paperback, New ed)

Marcelo, a clerk in a Barcelona office who might himself have emerged from a novel by Kafka, inhabits a world peopled by characters in literature. He once wrote a novel about the impossibility of love, but since then he has written nothing. He has, in short, become a 'Bartleby', so named after the character in Herman Melville's short story who, when asked to do something, always replied: 'I would prefer not to.' One day Marcelo sets out to make a search through literature for all those other possible Bartlebys, and with this in mind he has the engagingly original notion of keeping a diary and writing footnotes to an invisible text. His references to authors, both real and invented, provide the reader with extravagant doses of humour that are at once hilarious, irreverent and stimulating.

General

Imprint:	Vintage
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2005
First published:	July 2005
Authors:	Enrique Vila-Matas
Translators:	Jonathan Dunne
Dimensions:	198 x 131 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	178
Edition:	New ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-09-945372-7
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	Spanish
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-09-945372-X
Barcode:	9780099453727

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