by Herman Melville · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401570667
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«Bartleby, el escribiente» is the short story by Herman Melville, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (114 pages, in Spanish).
A story about a scrivener who, faced with the demands of his job, always replies with a disquieting «preferiría no hacerlo». His attitude triggers a silent conflict combining stoicism, irony and humor, and has been read as an anticipation of existentialism and absurdist literature. A brief work that probes human will and the great unanswerable questions.
Translated by Jorge Luis Borges. Originally published in 1853 as «Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street». Relatos collection. 1999 edition.
For readers of classics and short fiction with a psychological and existential undertone.
Herman Melville was an American writer of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851), Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia, and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. At the time of his death, Melville was not well known to the public, but 1919, the centennial of his birth, was the starting point of a Melville revival. Moby-Dick would eventually be considered one of the Great American Novels.
