Description
| Product ID: | 9780099453727 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Bartleby And Co |
| Authors: | Author: Enrique Vila-Matas, Jonathan Dunne |
| Page Count: | 192 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction in translation, Fiction in translation |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Marcelo, a humble clerk in a Barcelona office who might have come from a novel by Kafka, inhibits a world peopled by characters in literature. He once wrote a novel about the impossibility of love, but since then he has written nothing and a mental trauma has meant that he has been unable to put pen to paper; he has become a 'Bartleby'. 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.'' |
| Imprint Name: | Vintage |
| Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2005-07-07 |
