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Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street

Melville, Herman

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Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 1514617390
ISBN13: 9781514617397
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 19 2015
Pages: 60
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.14 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
I would prefer not to.
--- Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener

Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none.
--- Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street (1853) is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December editions of Putnam's Magazine, and reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856. Numerous essays are published on what according to scholar Robert Milder is unquestionably the masterpiece of the short fiction in the Melville canon.

Reception

Though no great success at the time of publication, Bartleby the Scrivener is now among the most noted of American short stories. It has been considered a precursor of absurdist literature, touching on several of Franz Kafka's themes in such works as A Hunger Artist and The Trial. There is nothing to indicate that the Bohemian writer was at all acquainted with the work of Melville, who remained largely forgotten until some time after Kafka's death.

Albert Camus, in a personal letter to Liselotte Dieckmann published in The French Review in 1998, cites Melville as a key influence.

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