Bartleby & Co. (9780811216982)

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.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 178 pages
• Dimensions 132 x 206 x 13mm | 191g
• Publication date 23 May 2007
• Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Publication City/Country New York, United States
• Language English
• ISBN10 0811216985
• ISBN13 9780811216982
• Bestsellers rank 73,590

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