Bartleby & Co by Enrique Vila-Matas
"Bartleby & Co" is a metafictional work that explores the theme of "writers of the No," authors who cease to write or never start at all. The narrator, an office worker on sick leave, uses footnotes to a nonexistent text to delve into the stories of these authors, including famous real-life figures. The book serves as a meditation on silence, refusal, and the nature of literature itself.
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- Published
- 2000
- Nationality
- Spanish
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 192
- Original Language
- Spanish
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- Alternate Titles
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- Bartleby & Co.
- Bartleby E Companhia
- Bartleby e Companhia
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This book is on the following 3 lists:
- 4th on The best books in Spanish for the last 25 years (El Pais)
- 7th on 100 Best Novels Written in Spanish in the Past 25 Years (Semana Magazine)
- 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (The Book)