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 ...
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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.
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Good + in Fair jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 178 pages. Initals top of first page. Underlinning, margin notes in the book. Corners are square. Silver lettering on the spine. Light wear top and bottom of spine. Spine is tight and there are no loose pages. Dust jacket has light shelf wear. One inch tear bottom edge of back cover. Light blue stains inside back cover at flap folds. Cover colors are bright.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book. Octavo. 8vo. (10) 178 (4) pp. Translated from the Spanish by Jonathan Dunne: First English Language Edition, 2004. Not Price Clipped. Pristine, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 5.75" x 8.25". Black cloth with grey paper-covered back strip, and silver lettering to spine. "Review Copy" sticker affixed to rear DJ panel over the barcode. Pictorial dj in acetate protector.
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