Bartleby and Co
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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, bu...
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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. ''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.
Detaljer
Forlag
Vintage
ISBN
9780099453727
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
192
Udgivelsesdato
07-07-2005
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
2331011
EAN nr.
9780099453727
Varegruppe
Fiction paperback
Højde/Dybde (mm)
130
Bredde (mm)
198
Længde (mm)
13
Vægt (g)
142