by Enrique Vila-Matas · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433924490
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«Bartleby y compañía» is the novel by Enrique Vila-Matas about writers who abandon literature, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (184 pages, in Spanish).
An anonymous narrator tracks down real writers who stopped writing, such as Rulfo, Rimbaud or Salinger, and groups them under the name «bartlebys», in allusion to Herman Melville's scrivener who replied «preferiría no hacerlo». The book reflects on the negative drive and the attraction to nothingness as a possible path for contemporary literary creation, with a diary that functions as footnotes to an invisible text.
Novel number 279 in Anagrama's Narrativas hispánicas collection. It was awarded the Premio Ciudad de Barcelona and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, both in 2000.
Enrique Vila-Matas is a Spanish writer.
