by Herman Melville · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420672984
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«Bartleby el escribiente» is the short story by Herman Melville published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (112 pages, in Spanish).
A lawyer narrates the arrival at his office of Bartleby, a scrivener who responds to any task with a polite refusal. From that attitude, Herman Melville builds a story about passive resistance, alienation, and the solitude of the individual in the modern city.
The story was originally published in 1853; this 2002 edition is part of the El Libro de Bolsillo - Literatura collection and includes a prologue by Jorge Luis Borges.
Suitable for students and readers of classics interested in nineteenth-century short fiction.
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.
