Bartleby, o Escrivão: Uma história de Wall Street

Bartleby, o Escrivão: Uma história de Wall Street

by Herman Melville
Bartleby, o Escrivão: Uma história de Wall Street

Bartleby, o Escrivão: Uma história de Wall Street

by Herman Melville

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Overview

Melville é único entre os seus grandes contemporâneos do século xix – Scott, Balzac, Dickens, Dostoevski, Hardy. Dan McCall
 Bartleby, O Escrivão – Uma História de Wall Street valeu a Melville 85 dólares, mas valeria ao mundo uma «Indústria Bartleby» que ainda hoje não se esgota e que explora os limites da ficção e da biografia, dando origem a todo o tipo de teorias interpretativas que alimentam os estudos melvilianos desde 1924, altura da sua redescoberta.
Em Bartleby, a personagem que lhe dá título é um jovem pálido com um ar de respeitável tristeza que inicialmente realizava uma quantidade extraordinária de trabalho no escritório de um advogado, mas que, de repente, recusa um pedido do patrão dizendo, num tom de voz singularmente suave, mas firme, «Preferia não o fazer.» Esta frase e esta insólita atitude do trabalhador de persistente relutância dão corpo a uma narrativa em que ironia, surpresa e a sombra da tragédia se cruzam. Depois de lermos este livro, Bartleby entra, para sempre, nas nossas vidas e no nosso imaginário.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789897028663
Publisher: Guerra e Paz Editores, Lda.
Publication date: 07/19/2022
Series: Clássicos Guerra e Paz , #1
Sold by: StreetLib SRL
Format: eBook
File size: 779 KB
Language: Portuguese

About the Author

Herman Melville was born in August 1, 1819, in New York City, the son of a merchant. Only twelve when his father died bankrupt, young Herman tried work as a bank clerk, as a cabin-boy on a trip to Liverpool, and as an elementary schoolteacher, before shipping in January 1841 on the whaler Acushnet, bound for the Pacific. Deserting ship the following year in the Marquesas, he made his way to Tahiti and Honolulu, returning as ordinary seaman on the frigate United States to Boston, where he was discharged in October 1844. Books based on these adventures won him immediate success. By 1850 he was married, had acquired a farm near Pittsfield, Massachussetts (where he was the impetuous friend and neighbor of Nathaniel Hawthorne), and was hard at work on his masterpiece Moby-Dick.

Literary success soon faded; his complexity increasingly alienated readers. After a visit to the Holy Land in January 1857, he turned from writing prose fiction to poetry. In 1863, during the Civil War, he moved back to New York City, where from 1866-1885 he was a deputy inspector in the Custom House, and where, in 1891, he died. A draft of a final prose work, Billy Budd, Sailor, was left unfinished and uncollated, packed tidily away by his widow, where it remained until its rediscovery and publication in 1924.

Date of Birth:

August 1, 1819

Date of Death:

September 28, 1891

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Place of Death:

New York, New York

Education:

Attended the Albany Academy in Albany, New York, until age 15
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