Bartleby And Co
$29.20
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
15 July 2005
Summary
Prize-winning novel from Spain - intellectual, contemporary, very funny and highly original - by one of the most admired of present-day Spanish writers.
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099453727 |
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| ISBN-10: | 009945372X |
| Author: | Enrique Vila-Matas, Jonathan Dunne |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2005 |
| Weight: | 138g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 13mm |
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Vila-Matas has had the brilliant idea of tracking down literature’s slackers - Bartleby and Co proposes a shadowy history of literature
“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 “Bartleby and Co is set to become the book of the literary season… An enormously enjoyable and intelligent book, and if I am not mistaken, an important one” El Pais “Told with considerable elegance and an admirable lack of melodrama” Spectator
About The Author
Enrique Vila-Matas
Enrique Vila-Matas was born in Barcelona in 1948. His extraordinary literary oeuvre includes Bartlby & Co, Montano and Never Any End to Paris, winner of the same Premio Rómulo Gallegos that catapulted his friend Roberto Bolaño to international renown. He has been translated into 30 languages.
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