3.5
Bartleby & Co.
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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.
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.Download the free Fable app
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3.5
Tano Pierucci
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“Me gusta como el autor logra hacer un repaso por una infinidad de autores que de una forma u otra se emperentan con la idea de ser "Escritores del no". Que cree este protagonista, este "explorador", vuelve la experiencia más inmersiva y me encantó. No le doy 5 estrellas porque me hubiera gustado que se desarrolle más la historia de este explorador en paralelo a su búsqueda :)
Recomendación? Leerlo con una libreta al lado para anotar frases geniales de autores que cita, como también registrar a estos autores y obras para futuras lecturas :)
PD: Llegue a Vila-Matas y este el libro por una entrevista y el tema homónimo del rapero español Toteking”
Rizki Ardhana
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grits
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“nii vahva raamat! ta nagu kirjutab ja siis natuke nagu ei kirjuta ka. ja nii ongi hea.”
Natalia
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Jaana Mõtsar
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About Enrique Vila-Matas
ENRIQUE VILA-MATAS was born in Barcelona. He has received countless prizes and written numerous award-winning novels, including Bartleby & Co., Montano’s Malady, Never Any End to Paris, and Dublinesque.
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