Bartleby El Escribiente

by Herman Melville

Overview

El largo cuento Bartleby el escribiente es una narración singular y contrastante desde varios ángulos. Ofrece un cuento intimista sobre la inacción, cuando el autor fue celebrado por relatos de acción en Moby Dick y otros. Frente al realismo de su estilo, juega a una retórica que bordea la psicología enfermiza y una trama increíble. El texto es doblemente interesante por las interpretaciones y elogios prodigados por autores e intelectuales posteriores, en cambio sus contemporáneos no descubrieron esa breve joya literaria. Ese efecto, saltando de la indiferencia al elogio, no resulta inusual en la historia de la literatura con su veleidoso tránsito desde el cieno al cielo y viceversa, porque este cuento exige relecturas para apreciar sus cualidades.
Esta extremada apariencia de anticipación contrasta con ingredientes de costumbrismo urbano en el relato: una profesión de "escribiente" que está acotada a una situación definida, en un ambiente laboral y urbano bastante preciso.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781542680783
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	01/26/2017
Pages:	26
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.05(d)
Language:	Spanish

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