Bartleby and Co.

Name: Bartleby and Co.
Author: Enrique Vila-Matas

by Enrique Vila-Matas

Metafictional homage to Bartleby exploring refusal, literature, and artistic paralysis

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Enrique Vila-Matas

Spanish author of highly self-referential metafiction that blurs the boundaries between criticism, memoir, and novel. Bartleby and Co. and Montano's Malady are postmodern celebrations of literature and its parasitic pleasures.

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