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6656695 No.6656695 [Reply] [Original]

>tfw you finally broke out of the /lit/ core and you see the true beauty in literature

Obscure Greats General

>> No.6656699

I like book

>> No.6656721

>implying anything other than the holy meme trilogy is worth reading

>> No.6656728

>>6656695
Enrique Vila-Matas

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 the annals of literature. Written as a series of footnotes (a non-work itself), Bartleby embarks on such questions as why do we write, why do we exist? The answer lies in the novel itself: told from the point of view of a hermetic hunchback who has no luck with women, and is himself unable to write, Bartleby is utterly engaging, a work of profound and philosophical beauty.

>> No.6656794

>>6656721
This. There's a reason we like it. It's the be all end all to literature excluding the Bible