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Bartleby & Co

Enrique Vila-Matas

出版	New Directions Publishing, 2007
主題	Fiction / GeneralFiction / LiteraryFiction / Hispanic & LatinoLiterary Collections / GeneralLiterary Collections / Caribbean & Latin American
ISBN	08112169859780811216982
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=z0J1izsvtkwC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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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 footnotes (a non-work itself),Bartlebyembarks 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,Bartlebyis utterly engaging, a work of profound and philosophical beauty.