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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 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.Product Identifiers
PublisherVintage Publishing
ISBN-139780099453727
eBay Product ID (ePID)89104259
Product Key Features
Publication Year2005
TopicBooks
Book TitleBartleby and Co
Number of Pages192 Pages
LanguageEnglish
AuthorEnrique Vila-Matas
Dimensions
Item Height198 mm
Item Weight138 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorEnrique Vila-Matas