Bartleby the Scrivener (Hesperus Classics)

副标题: the Scrivener and Benito Cereno

ISBN: 9781843911562

出版社: Hesperus Press Ltd

出版年: 2007-08-16

页数: 126

定价: GBP 6.99

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

When a New York lawyer needs to take on another copyist, it is Bartleby who responds to his advertisement, and arrives 'pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn'. At first a diligent employee, he soon begins to refuse work, saying only 'I would prefer not to'. So begins the story of Bartleby - passive to the point of absurdity yet paradoxically extremely disruptive - which rapidly turns from farce to inexplicable tragedy.