Bartleby, der Schreiber: Eine Geschichte aus der Wall Street

Bartleby, der Schreiber: Eine Geschichte aus der Wall Street

by Herman Melville
Bartleby, der Schreiber: Eine Geschichte aus der Wall Street

Bartleby, der Schreiber: Eine Geschichte aus der Wall Street

by Herman Melville

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Overview

Bartleby der Schreiber ist das erste Werk, das Melville nach Moby Dick schrieb. Zur Inhalt: Ein älterer Rechtsanwalt berichtet als Ich-Erzähler von einem seiner Schreiber namens Bartleby, den er eines Tages in sein von Hochhäusern umstelltes lichtloses Büro in der Wall Street aufnimmt. Bartleby beginnt seine Tätigkeit mit stillem Fleiß und einsiedlerischer Ausdauer. Er kopiert unermüdlich Verträge, lehnt aber zur Überraschung seines Dienstherrn schon bald jede andere Tätigkeit mit den Worten ab: "Ich möchte lieber nicht", "I would prefer not to". Bald weigert er sich sogar, Verträge zu kopieren, wohnt aber inzwischen in dem Büro - höflich, freudlos, ohne Freunde und fast ohne zu essen. Herman Melville (1819-1891) war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller, Dichter und Essayist. Melvilles Moby-Dick gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Romane der Weltliteratur.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9788026856849
Publisher: E-Artnow
Publication date: 11/01/2017
Pages: 32
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.07(d)
Language: German

About the Author

Herman Melville was born in August 1, 1819, in New York City, the son of a merchant. Only twelve when his father died bankrupt, young Herman tried work as a bank clerk, as a cabin-boy on a trip to Liverpool, and as an elementary schoolteacher, before shipping in January 1841 on the whaler Acushnet, bound for the Pacific. Deserting ship the following year in the Marquesas, he made his way to Tahiti and Honolulu, returning as ordinary seaman on the frigate United States to Boston, where he was discharged in October 1844. Books based on these adventures won him immediate success. By 1850 he was married, had acquired a farm near Pittsfield, Massachussetts (where he was the impetuous friend and neighbor of Nathaniel Hawthorne), and was hard at work on his masterpiece Moby-Dick.

Literary success soon faded; his complexity increasingly alienated readers. After a visit to the Holy Land in January 1857, he turned from writing prose fiction to poetry. In 1863, during the Civil War, he moved back to New York City, where from 1866-1885 he was a deputy inspector in the Custom House, and where, in 1891, he died. A draft of a final prose work, Billy Budd, Sailor, was left unfinished and uncollated, packed tidily away by his widow, where it remained until its rediscovery and publication in 1924.

Date of Birth:

August 1, 1819

Date of Death:

September 28, 1891

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Place of Death:

New York, New York

Education:

Attended the Albany Academy in Albany, New York, until age 15
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