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Beschreibung
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.
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.
Über den Autor
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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780099453727
ISBN-10: 009945372X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Vila-Matas, Enrique
Übersetzung: Dunne, Jonathan
Hersteller: Vintage
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 129 x 11 mm
Von/Mit: Enrique Vila-Matas
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.07.2005
Gewicht: 0,213 kg
Artikel-ID: 102380027