Nos cuenta una historia aparentemente muy sencilla, casi una anecdota. Robert zaslavsky bartleby1 is one of melvilles most perplexing works, verging on unintelligibility. A story of wall street, herman melville bartleby, the scrivener. The narrator, an elderly lawyer who has a very comfortable business helping wealthy men deal with mortgages, title deeds, and bonds, relates the story of the strangest man he has ever known. American writer most famous for mobydick 1851, about captain ahab and the white whale born into wealthy new york family, but father died in debt at 21, melville went to south seas on a whaling boat wrote popular seafaring adventure novels typee. The narrator of this novella, a successful wall street businessman, introduces us to a former employee of his whose gradual inaction and lack of motivation represent a fascinating enigma, and are a source of both compassion and revulsion. Despite its ostensible unintelligibility, it is a compelling story to read. Dec 08, 2010 i would prefer not to commentary on bartleby by herman melville posted on december 8, 2010 february 7, 2014 by nicolas brando i would prefer not to keep on writing and repeating the same commentaries that others have already written and repeated before. Bartleby, the scrivener herman melville pdf download free. I would prefer not to commentary on bartleby by herman. This volume collects two of melvilles most memorable and celebrated short fiction pieces, bartleby, the scrivener and benito cereno. Enter bartleby, a quiet, initially efficient, antisocial little man.
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