![]() ![]() ![]() The characters are very eccentric and so is the story. Reading Bartleby I was very surprised how humorous it is. I can’t tell you why but some books just do not sound like you would like them. I was never tempted to read Moby Dick although my parents had a copy with beautiful etchings. I have just read and reviewed Delerm’s novel Quelque chose en lui de Bartleby and since it was obviously inspired by Melville’s story, I had to read it. There is a specific reason, why I read Melville’s novella Bartleby. ![]() Set in the mid-19th century on New York City’s Wall Street, it was also, perhaps, Herman Melville’s most prescient story: what if a young man caught up in the rat race of commerce finally just said, “I would prefer not to”? Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world-even those daunted by Moby-Dick-BARTLEBY THE SCRIVENER is simply one of the most absorbing and moving novellas ever. ![]()
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