Издания и произведения

"Бартлби и компания" - это и роман, и обильно документированное эссе, где речь идет о писателях, по той или иной причине бросивших писать. Вила-Матас называет их "бартлби" - по имени героя повести Мелвилла "Писец Бартлби", известного тем, что на любую просьбу или предложение он отвечал: "Предпочел бы отказаться". В компанию, собранную Вила-Матасом, попали более восьми десятков авторов - как реальных (Сервантес, Мопассан, Рембо, Сэлинджер, Пинчон и др.), так и вымышленных, и читателей ждет головокружительное путешествие по лабиринтам литературы "направления Нет".

A marvelous novel by one of Spain's most important contemporary authors, in which a clerk in a Barcelona office takes us on a romping tour of world literature. In Bartleby & Co., an enormously enjoyable novel, Enrique Vila-Matas tackles the theme of silence in literature: the writers and non-writers who, like the scrivener Bartleby of the Herman Melville story, in answer to any question or demand, replies: "I would prefer not to." Addressing such "artists of refusal" as Robert Walser, Robert Musil, Arthur Rimbaud, Marcel Duchamp, Herman Melville, and J. D. Salinger, Bartleby & Co. could be described as a meditation: a walking tour through…

A marvelous novel by one of Spain's most important contemporary authors, in which a clerk in a Barcelona office takes us on a romping tour of world literature. In Bartleby & Co., an enormously enjoyable novel, Enrique Vila-Matas tackles the theme of silence in literature: the writers and non-writers who, like the scrivener Bartleby of the Herman Melville story, in answer to any question or demand, replies: "I would prefer not to." Addressing such "artists of refusal" as Robert Walser, Robert Musil, Arthur Rimbaud, Marcel Duchamp, Herman Melville, and J. D. Salinger, Bartleby & Co. could be described as a meditation: a walking tour through…

25 aastat tagasi avaldas Marcelo armastusromaani ja seej?rel, p?rast ?ht traumaatilist s?ndmust, ei kirjutanud enam ridagi. N??d otsustab ta oma vaikimise l?petada ja hakata kirjutama p?evikut. Nii visandab ta joonealused m?rkused oma tulevasele teosele, mis r??gib kirjanikest v?i kirjanduslikest tegelastest, kes on ?hel hetkel kirjutamisega l?pparve teinud. See on vaimukas kirjanduslooline pillerkaar legendaarsetest vaikijatest ja vakatajatest, kes on kirjutaja Bartleby kombel ?elnud: „Ma parem ei kirjuta.“ Kuid v?imalik, et just m??da ei-lab?rinti r?nnates kerkivad esile tulevikukirjandusse viivad teed. &t;br/&t; Enrique Vila-Mataselt…