Bartleby And Co - Softcover

Vila-Matas, Enrique

Softcover

ISBN 10: 009945372X ISBN 13: 9780099453727

Verlag: Vintage, 2005

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Críticas:

"Vila-Matas has had the brilliant idea of tracking down literature's slackers - Bartleby and Co proposes a shadowy history of literature" (Alberto Manguel)

"Ingenious... An Excellent book... A work of honesty and profound beauty" (John Burnside Scotland on Sunday)

"Told with considerable elegance and an admirable lack of melodrama" (Spectator)

Reseña del editor:

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.

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• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 009945372X
• ISBN 13: 9780099453727
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192