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Bartleby, The Scrivener : A Story of Wall-Street

By Herman Melville

Book information

Year
2009
ISBN
1438288913, 9781438288918, 1435386787, 9781435386785, 1428029141, 9781428029149, 1419109006, 9781419109003
ASIN
B0006QZBVG,B000UEH2HK,B002J48M5A,B001892DQG
Open Library ID
OL8537995M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
271 kB (277144 bytes)
Pages
70\58
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Herman Melville wrote Bartleby the Scrivener as an emotional response to the fact that his masterpiece Moby-Dick was not selling as well as he had expected. The work is said to have been inspired, in part, by Melville's reading of Emerson, and some have pointed to specific parallels to Emerson's essay, The Transcendentalist. Although the story was not very popular at the time it was published, Bartleby the Scrivener has become among the most famous American short stories. It has been considered a precursor to absurdist literature, touching on many of the themes extant in the work of Franz Kafka, particularly in The Trial and A Hunger Artist. However, there exists nothing to indicate that the German-language writer was at all familiar with Melville, who was largely forgotten until after Kafka's death.

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