by Herman Melville · VALDEMAR ENOKIA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788477022848
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«Bartleby, el escribiente y otros cuentos» is Herman Melville's collection of short stories, published by Valdemar in paperback (155 pages, in Spanish).
The title story is set on Wall Street and follows Bartleby, a scrivener who begins to answer any request with «preferiría no hacerlo». His refusal gradually empties the office routine of meaning and turns the tale into a reflection on work, alienation and freedom. It is accompanied by other stories by Melville.
1999 edition in the El Club Diógenes collection from Valdemar (number 126). The original story, «Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street», appeared in Putnam's Magazine in 1853.
For readers of classic American fiction and short stories that explore working life and quiet resistance.
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.
