Bartleby and Co

Name: Bartleby and Co
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ISBN: 9780811216982

ISBN-10: 0811216985

ISBN-13: 9780811216982

Edition: 2007

Authors: Enrique Vila-Matas, Jonathan Dunne

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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. InBartleby & 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…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 5/23/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 178
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.10" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Manuel Rivas was born in A Coru_a in 1957. He writes in the Galician language of north-west Spain. He is well known in Spain for his journalism, as well as for his prize-winning short stories and novels, which include the internationally acclaimed The Carpenter's Pencil. His works have been translated into twenty languages.