by Herman Melville · Eumo Editorial SAU · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788476021750
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«Bartleby l'escrivent» is the short story by Herman Melville, published by Eumo Editorial in paperback (84 pages, in Catalan).
A Wall Street lawyer hires a new copyist named Bartleby. After a period of intense work, the scrivener begins to decline any task with the phrase «preferiría no hacerlo». His refusal to cooperate, always polite and serene, becomes absolute and forces the narrator to decide how to treat an employee who has stopped working without explanation.
It is part of the Narratives collection from Eumo Editorial, number 23. It was serialized in 1853 in Putnam's Magazine.
For readers of American classics and 19th-century short fiction who want to read Melville in Catalan.
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.
