by Herman Melville · El País. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498157055
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«Bartleby, el escribiente» is a short story by Herman Melville published by El País in paperback (72 pages, in Spanish).
A clerk of reserved demeanor named Bartleby replies «Preferiría no hacerlo» when asked to collaborate in the office. His quiet, unexplained resistance disconcerts those around him, turns routine into a dilemma, and pushes his employer to question the limits of obligation toward another person.
It is number 21 in El País's Relatos Breves collection; the edition is from 2007 and also includes the story «El hombre pararrayos», translated by José Rafael Hernández Arias.
For fans of North American classics and 19th-century stories, it is a short work by Herman Melville, author of Moby Dick.
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.
