Bartleby & Co. (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2007
First published:	2004
Authors:	Enrique Vila-Matas
Translators:	Jonathan Dunne
Dimensions:	206 x 132 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	178
ISBN-13:	978-0-8112-1698-2
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-8112-1698-5
Barcode:	9780811216982

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