Bartleby el escribiente: Una historia de Wall Street

Bartleby el escribiente: Una historia de Wall Street

by Herman Melville
Bartleby el escribiente: Una historia de Wall Street

Bartleby el escribiente: Una historia de Wall Street

by Herman Melville

eBook

$6.99 

Available on Compatible NOOK devices, the free NOOK App and in My Digital Library.
WANT A NOOK?  Explore Now

Related collections and offers

LEND ME® See Details

Overview

"Es lunes, aunque no importa –podría ser cualquier otro día laborable–. El abogado y propietario de la oficina, por el bien de todos, designa a cada uno de sus subalternos las tareas que hay que resolver. Tres sencillas palabras, pronunciadas por el último empleado contratado, harán que, desde esos despachos, el mundo comience a tambalearse. Con su «preferiría no hacerlo», Bartleby deja perplejo a todo aquel incapaz de ver más allá de su entorno cotidiano. La apatía e inactividad del escribiente cuestiona lo que somos, empujándonos y sacándonos de nuestras vidas, y nos inunda de una extraña sensación entre lo cómico y lo temible. Así, el escribiente supone la negación ante la inercia del sistema, inaugurando una vía de escape para todos aquellos que estamos condenados a seguir siendo del modo en que somos y perpetuar una realidad asfixiante. ¿Seremos capaces de preferir no hacer infinitas copias de lo mismo? Bartleby el escribiente, obra maestra de Herman Melville, fue publicada por primera vez de forma anónima y en dos partes en los números de noviembre y diciembre de 1853 de la revista Putnam's Magazine. Con esta novela corta, el autor inaugura la narrativa contemporánea, cuyo testigo recogerán desde Franz Kafka hasta Samuel Beckett."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9788446054382
Publisher: Ediciones AKAL s.a.
Publication date: 12/04/2023
Series: Básica de Bolsillo
Sold by: Bookwire
Format: eBook
Pages: 104
File size: 361 KB
Language: Spanish

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
From the B&N Reads Blog

Customer Reviews