Bartleby, The Scrivener: Golden Illustrated Classics (Comes with a Free Audiobook), by Herman Melville
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- Published on: 2015-11-27
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Review ''Herman Melville is one of American literature's greatest figures.'' --The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English
About the Author HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891) was born in New York City. Family hardships forced him to leave school for various occupations, including shipping as a cabin boy to Liverpool in 1839--a voyage that sparked his love for the sea. A shrewd social critic and philosopher in his fiction, he is considered an outstanding writer of the sea and a great stylist who mastered both realistic narrative and a rich, rhythmical prose. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick and the posthumously published novella Billy Budd.
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful. I also prefer not to enter a title for my review By Lionheart A companion piece to Moby-Dick, and probably one of the most important short stories ever written, although the distinction between a "short story" and a "novella" has been blurred in recent decades. Are we going strictly by length? And if so, what is the cut off?At any rate, this is a fantastic story, if a bit heavy for the casual reader. Bartleby, the Scrivener, is the deeply disturbing and ultimately fatalistic portrait of one man's hopeless sojourn through the rat-maze of the times, which is, in fact, all times. Bartleby, a hopeless grunt of a worker, is extraordinary only because of the implacable insistence he places on retaining his individuality in the face of Melville's almighty corporate capitalist system. He is the mouse who utterly refuses to sniff the cheese. He is the cog that dares to resist the pressures both from within and without.A former postal worker in a dead letter office, Bartleby finds himself attached to a law firm as a copyist, once again doing work he would rather not be doing with no end in sight, until he asserts vocally that he is not going to do it any longer. Or, in his words, he "prefers not to." Come what may, he prefers not to chase the cheese any longer -- was it the time he spent with the dead letters that changed him? We don't really know, can only guess. All we know for sure is that he, unaccountably, though accepting his status as a rat (for how can he not?) does not accept his label as tool, cog, wheel, mechanism, motion, pen without will, man without mind.He prefers not to copy, and so he does not really copy, despite the cheese, despite the fact that he must copy, that there is no other alternative in the rat maze cheese world but to copy for his due like a good little normal streetwalking human. But he prefers not to mangle his individual humanity. Or he prefers not to further mangle his human individuality. In any case, he prefers not to copy until his body literally cannot copy a line anymore, and the choice is finally taken out of his hands. He preferred not to copy before; but he did it, as he operated in the dead letter office, because he had to, but now, he literally cannot copy, an instance of the body following the mind. Which is where the story really gets interesting. Because, obstinately, he then refuses to accept his fate, reasonable as it is. After all, he cannot, or is not willing to, work. So he must be fired. But he prefers not to leave the offices of his employer. He prefers not to copy (because, after all, his eyes are bad -- or is that the real reason?), but he prefers not to leave the offices, either.This is a difficult story to get hold of, but it boils down to Bartleby's insufferable humanity, which is incompatible with the business world. Why won't he just go quietly along? Why must he hold so painfully to himself that the entire system must bear the burden of his kindly refusal not to do what he isn't inclined to? In other words, why can't he just go along like the other rats and fall into the dead heap at the end of the tunnel? Because there is no cheese, only a gallows.Funny in places, certainly, as the system tries to reason with Bartleby, to get him to step back on the road preset for him, then mysterious, as we wonder: what the heck is this guy doing? Is this a scam of some sort? Then finally unbearably sad, as Melville tells us not only of Bartleby's final fate, but of how he really began -- among the dead letters in the post office.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful. Office Without a View By Plume45 Melville's darkly curious novella about a mysterious stranger who refuses to leave his place of employment--even when fired--is sublty compelling; the plot gradually moves forward in small, psychological increments. This story, which could just as well havebeen set in Victorian London, is related by an elderly narrator--a lawyer with two regular sciveners (legal copists) andan office boy. But the addition of the inscrutable, pallid Bartleby creates a sensation in the small office; he quietly but simplyrefuses to do anything but copy documents--eventually carrying his disobedience to passive revolt. Yet he refuses to depart; he "Prefers not" to do anything but waste away in semi-public view. How can his decent and compassionate employer remove the unwanted fellow--without resorting to crass police action?Melville's unchaptered tale is charactereized by long paragraphs and a rich tapestry of vccabulary. Less a mstyery than one at first expects the simple plot unfolds more as a comment on the role of humanity in a social setting. How easy it would be to quell our collective conscience by institutionalizing the social misfits! This may be the first literary example of Passive Resistance. With no clear-cut villain in this odd tale readers are left in moral disquiet; thought-provoking reading for insightful readers. (January 8, 2014)
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Resemblance to Kafka`s Trial By chloe nava Black humor is all over the story, Bartleby embodies the lifeless characters we see everyday absorbed by paperwork. His boss tries to ascertain the trouble behind B. and becomes quite paranoid from time to time. Only in Kafka I have seen such disappointment of life, such indifference and lack of strength to escape from bureaucratic misery.
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