Bartleby the Scrivener (Assonanze)

Description

Published in 1853, Bartleby the Scrivener is one of the finest stories of the modern era. It recounts the story of a colorless Wall Street employee who, without offering any explanation, gradually gives up his work as a copyist, impervious to every attempt at persuasion. Mild and respectful yet unshakably determined to assert his choice of freedom and his radical rejection of utilitarianism and American efficiency, he faces the hostility of the world, imprisonment, and ultimately death. Imitated, studied, and translated by some of the greatest contemporary writers, including Borges, Beckett, Leiris, Perec, and Calvino, who intended to dedicate the last of his American Lectures to it, Bartleby the Scrivener is presented here in Gianni Celati's masterful translation, accompanied by a lengthy essay and translations of a selection of Melville's letters from that difficult period, immediately following the resounding failure of his now undisputed masterpiece, Moby-Dick.

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