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10015923

Bartleby the Scrivener Anonymous Tue Sep 12 22:00:20 2017 No.10015923 [Reply] [Original]

So I just read this.

What the fuck did I just read?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 12 22:01:50 2017 No.10015935 Bartleby the Scrivener

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 12 22:03:01 2017 No.10015940 >>10015923 A good story.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 12 22:03:58 2017 No.10015946 >explain it to me, /lit/ I prefer not to

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 12 22:05:38 2017 No.10015953 >>10015935 I now that you dolt, but what did I think of it?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 12 22:07:20 2017 No.10015963 >>10015946 Nice.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 12 22:09:00 2017 No.10015971 >>10015953 You didn't know what the fuck you just read

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 12 22:10:32 2017 No.10015982 >>10015940 It's famous as a short story yet no-one can substantiate what makes it good. The plot was illogical, the characters unrealistic, and nothing really even happened.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 13 00:10:27 2017 No.10016303 File: 81 KB, 960x913, my gott.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10015982 >nothing happened

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 13 00:25:36 2017 No.10016341 File: 57 KB, 800x561, 1504298278177.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10015923 >>10015935 >>10015953 >>10015971 Sometimes this place really pulls through

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 13 00:28:46 2017 No.10016352 File: 36 KB, 300x443, 1111520.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10015982 >nothing really even happened

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 13 09:34:15 2017 No.10017554 Was Bartlebey autistic?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 13 09:43:21 2017 No.10017587 >>10015953 >but what did I think of it? WTF you hate c(r)apitalism now. Call yourself a #Marxman.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 13 16:39:50 2017 No.10018990 >>10017554 Proto-autistic almost certainly. And horribly alone. His behavior becoming infectious at the office, by the way, is totally 'realistic.' Is a proto-instance of how memes get passed.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 13 17:10:24 2017 No.10019144 File: 2.76 MB, 1480x2348, IMG_6944.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] A dull story, only worth reading as an introduction for the true masterpiece that is Bartleby & Co. by Enrique Vila-Matas.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 13 22:21:28 2017 No.10020364 >>10015982 It's Kafka before Kafka