Bartleby the Scrivener, published in 1853, one of the most beautiful stories of the modern era, speaks of a comic scribe claiming idleness and silence, against all pressure from American utilitarianism. Imitated, meditated and translated by some of the greatest contemporary writers such as Borges, Beckett, Michel Leiris, Georges Perec, Italo Calvino (who wanted to dedicate the last of his Six Memos ), is also a parable about the work of writing is intended to upset a lot of ideas. The translation of Gianni Celati there returns in all its freshness, with a humorous twitch to the membership of Bartleby (for example, his famous words: "I would have loved to no "). Celati also has his own studio sull'esilarante clerk, the version of Melville's letters in the turbulent period of transition from Moby Dick to" Bartleby "and an annotated list of the various interpretations of the story.
Herman Melville was born in New York City August 1, 1819. A financial disaster economically ruined his family wealthy for generations. Herman must leave school to help her: from 1834 to 1841 is used to bank clerk, farmer, school teacher. The precariousness of such pursuits led him to embark as cabin boy on the Saint Lawrence live in Liverpool. Then take the sea on the whaling ship Acushnet directly to the South Seas, then on the Leviathan, and then on the Charles and Henry, on board of which will sail in the seas along the east. Desertion of a crucial episode in July of 1842 he had abandoned in Nukuhiva Acushnet in the Marquesas Islands, stopping at Taipa, then fly to Tahiti. Two years after release, are the adventures of those living in the exotic paradise of many European artists that inspired his first novel, Typee , in which he recalls those days already Melville reveals the illusory nature of the exotic dream, and the following year ( 1847) comes Omoo , continuation of the picaresque debut novel. With Mardi (1849) Melville abandons the autobiographical genre adventure to set out into a patrol metaphysics that will mark next to the first works of fiction vein, the fate of future work. Two years after leaving Moby Dick that communicates with Shakespeare, to the radical nature of the dilemmas and Dante for the power plant, and it portrays the myth of Ulysses and biblical archetypes marine adventure. Success zero. Again silence Pierre the following year, then a 'fire break out in the warehouses of the publisher Harper destroying all copies of the volumes and weights of Melville, with devastating effect, scoring the symbolic end of his short literary fortune. Herman Melville in 1855 is no longer considered socially a writer, though, impiegatosi in New York as a customs inspector, mortally wounded by the tragedy of the first-born Malcolm, who accidentally kills cleaning a weapon, continues to write works of the highest level: Israel Potter (1855), The Piazza Tales (1856) which includes some masterpieces including Benito Cereno , Battle Pieces and Aspects now War (1866), lovely poems inspired by the war of succession, Clarel, a Poem and Pilgrimage to the Holy Land (1876) that also draws on a trip to the Holy Land, the beautiful poems of the sea of \u200b\u200b John Marr and Other Sailors (1888). He died September 28, 1891. In 1924 will light the novel Billy Budd, was the death of the manuscript. Another masterpiece.
Title: Bartleby the Scrivener
Original title: Bartleby the scrivener
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Feltrinelli
Collection: Universal economic. The classic
Publication: 2003 (the first in 1853 in an anonymous form)
ISBN: 8807820052
Pages: 116
Price: € 6.00
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