by Herman Melville · Proa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788484377108
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«Bartleby, l'escrivent» is a short novel by Herman Melville, published by Proa in paperback (88 pages, in Catalan).
Bartleby is a copyist in a lawyer's office. When his boss asks him to do a simple checking task, he responds with an unappealable «Preferiría no hacerlo», and that passive refusal gradually extends to all areas of his life, baffling those around him. The story explores alienation, passive resistance and lack of communication in modern society.
Catalan edition from the Proa Butxaca collection, with translation by Miquel Creus (Bloquejat). Original title: «Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street».
Recommended for readers of American literature classics and for those seeking a short story about individual 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.
