Bartleby, the scrivener

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• Herman Melville: Bartleby the Scrivener

  What to say, how to begin, on a piece of writing which, says Patrick McGrath in the introduction to the Hesperus Press edition of ‘Bartleby the Scrivener’, “one of the great achievements of world literature”? In fact he doesn’t quite say that: he sim ... (read full critics)

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  In answer to my advertisement, a motionless young man one morning, stood upon my office threshold [...] pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn! It was Bartleby.

  As I walked home in a pensive mood, my vanity got the better of my pity. I could not but highly plume myself on my masterly management in getting rid of Bartleby. Masterly I call it, and such it must appear to any dispassionate thinker. The beauty of my procedure seemed to consist in its perfect qu ... (continue)

  As I walked home in a pensive mood, my vanity got the better of my pity. I could not but highly plume myself on my masterly management in getting rid of Bartleby. Masterly I call it, and such it must appear to any dispassionate thinker. The beauty of my procedure seemed to consist in its perfect quietness. There was no vulgar bullying, no bravado of any sort, no choleric hectoring, and striding to and fro across the apartment, jerking out vehement commands for Bartleby to bundle himself off with his beggarly traps. Nothing of the kind.

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• Bartleby e il suo "I would prefer not to". Geniale.

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• Libri Italiani
• Paperback 167 Pages
• ISBN-10: 8806128140
• ISBN-13: 9788806128142
• Publisher: Einaudi (Tascabili, 185)
• Pub date: Jan 01, 1994
• Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD and Others
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