The Village Voice, December 29th, 2004
I would prefer not to: A Spanish novelist praises profound denial BARTLEBY & CO. By EnriqueVila-Matas TranslatedbyJonathan Dunne New Directions, 178 pp $22-95
BARTLEBYTHESCRIVENER By Herman Melville Melville House, 64PP $9
JUST SAY NO
Bartleby & Co. is a curious book. Its author, the much acclaimed but until now undertranslated Spaniard Enrique Vila-Matas, names his humpbacked and blindingly well-read narrator Marcelo, though you have to keep your nose to the spine to notice-by my count the name comes up only once, dropped in passing by an old unrequited crush. And if along the way ...
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