Bartleby y compañía
Bartleby y compañía

Bartleby & Co.

Bartleby y compañía

The protagonist, Marcelo, who lives his life in an office, like Herman Melville’s character, searches for all possible Bartlebys who have put in practice the philosophy of the "NO". The narrator of the book writes a diary which is also a record of footnotes on an invisible text. Marcelo has collected about 80 Bartleby-like cases. One of them is Rimbaud who decided to say no to literature at the age of 19, another one is Juan Rulfo, who stopped writing at the age of 30, or J.D. Salinger... and many others who suffered the "negative syndrome". Perhaps even more than Beckett, Borges is the most likely author that comes to mind. The novel constantly refers to other authors, some real, some invented, showing "an extravagant, ironic erudition, anti-academic and burlesque..." which is both hilarious and stimulating for the mind. One of those unclassifiable books, a completely original voice, which seems to have found its breakthrough here. An intellectual, contemporary, erudite and funny novel.

PAGES184
SERIESNarrativas hispánicas
PUBLICATION01/02/2000
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Enrique Vila-Matas

Enrique Vila-Matas

Enrique Vila-Matas was born in Barcelona in 1948 and has published a large body of narrative since his first work in 1973. He is a regular contributor to the press. He was awarded the Prize Ciudad de Barcelona and the prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger for Bartleby y companía. In 2001 he was given the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for El viaje vertical, the most coveted award for fiction in Latin America. El mal de Montano won the XXX Premio Herralde de Novela, the Critic's Award, in 2002, the Prix Médicis Etranger 2003 and the Premio Internazionale Ennio Flaiano.


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