Bartleby And Co by Enrique Vila-Matas

Bartleby And Co by Enrique Vila-Matas

Marcelo, a humble clerk in a Barcelona office who might have come from a novel by Kafka, inhibits a world peopled by characters in literature. He once wrote a novel about the impossibility of love, but since then he has written nothing and a mental trauma has meant that he has been unable to put pen to paper; he has become a 'Bartleby'.

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 *

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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ISBN 13	9780099453727
ISBN 10	009945372X
Title	Bartleby And Co
Author	Enrique Vila Matas
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2005-07-07
Number of pages	192
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