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Enrique Vila-Matas, Jonathan Dunne

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RANDOM HOUSE UK LTD
15 July 2005

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Prize-winning novel from Spain - intellectual, contemporary, very funny and highly original - by one of the most admired of present-day Spanish writers.

Marcelo, a clerk in a Barcelona office who might himself have emerged from a novel by Kafka, inhabits a world peopled by characters in literature. He once wrote a novel about the impossibility of love, but since then he has written nothing. He has, in short, become a 'Bartleby', so named after the character in Herman Melville's short story who, when asked to do something, always replied- 'I would prefer not to.'

One day Marcelo sets out to make a search through literature for all those other possible Bartlebys, and with this in mind he has the engagingly original notion of keeping a diary and writing footnotes to an invisible text. His references to authors, both real and invented, provide the reader with extravagant doses of humour that are at once hilarious, irreverent and stimulating.

By: Enrique Vila-Matas
Translated by: Jonathan Dunne
Imprint: RANDOM HOUSE UK LTD
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 138g
ISBN: 9780099453727
ISBN 10: 009945372X
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 15 July 2005
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Enrique Vila-Matas was born in Barcelona in 1948. His first book appeared in 1973 and his novels have been translated into eleven languages. This is his first book to be translated into English.

Reviews for Bartleby And Co

"""Vila-Matas has had the brilliant idea of tracking down literature's slackers - Bartleby and Co proposes a shadowy history of literature"" -- Alberto Manguel ""Ingenious... An Excellent book... A work of honesty and profound beauty"" -- John Burnside Scotland on Sunday ""Bartleby and Co is set to become the book of the literary season... An enormously enjoyable and intelligent book, and if I am not mistaken, an important one"" El Pais ""Told with considerable elegance and an admirable lack of melodrama"" Spectator"

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