Bartleby - Der Schreiber

by Herman Melville, Redaktion Gröls-Verlag (Editor)

Overview

Ein schon älterer Herr, Anwalt und Notar, berichtet von seinem Schreibgehilfen Bartleby, der sich schnell den Ruf eines fleißigen und ausdauernden Angestellten erarbeitet. Sein Fleiß ist allerdings etwas monoton - er mag nur Verträge kopieren. Bartlebys Weg ist dann der Weg einer schweren psychischen Krankheit, die letztlich dazu führt, dass der Schreibgehilfe sich immer und immer tiefer in die Kanzlei eingräbt, bis er schließlich dort wohnt und weniger und weniger Nahrung zu sich nimmt. Welches Ende kann das nehmen? Gröls-Verlag (Edition Werke der Weltliteratur)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783988280152
Publisher:	Bod Third Party Titles
Publication date:	11/01/2022
Pages:	106
Product dimensions:	7.44(w) x 9.69(h) x 0.22(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