Bartleby and Benito Cereno Herman Melville 9781619493797 Books
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This volume collects two of Melville’s most memorable and celebrated short fiction pieces, “Bartleby, the Scrivener” and “Benito Cereno.” A short story that largely reflected Melville’s own frustrations as a writer, “Bartleby, the Scrivener” tells the story of a Manhattan-based clerk and copyist who is driven by depression and self-determination to renounce the writing assignments and expectations demanded of him by his superiors. “Benito Cereno,” on the other hand, is a harrowing novella that revolves around a slave rebellion aboard a Spanish merchant ship and the utter depravity of the circumstances preceding it. Both works of extraordinary literary significance, they continue to showcase Melville at the peak of his creativity.
Bartleby and Benito Cereno Herman Melville 9781619493797 Books
The story is recounted many years after Bartleby has died by the narrator, or may be by Melville himself.Well, this is Wall Street.
Bartleby is admitted to be a copyist, a scrivener, in a peculiar office, btw - where 3 employees are already working, each one has his strangeness - and the owner, who proclaims himself as a greedy man only interested in working with the rich men bonds.
To my surprise and, in my opinion, the owner is gentle - not kind - extremely polite, incapable of violence and is too much drawn to the weirdness of his employees, respecting each one of them (which for me, as an owner, would be rather impossible).
Bartleby uses 'I prefer not to', each time he is asked to do something that he is not copying. It's in my opinion, rather then a negation of what his employe demands, an assertion of his human choice.
Just to add some fire to this discussion, when Bartleby prefers not to, he pushes others onto doing something as he will not. As he affirms gently and kindly he prefers not to, or rather, as he hold forth his , making someone do it for him because the World and, specially Wall Street cannot be stopped.
Imagine, for just a moment, if the trio in the office do the same as Bartleby, or even the lawyer, if they prefer not to, what would happen?
He simply preferred not to just because Melville wanted the narrator - and us - to think about the possibility of someone who doesn't exist - or who doesn't want to exist - from the beginning because he affirms instead of negates that he preferred not to.
In fact, this is not a refusal, traced back to its Latin etymology praefero, the first meaning was "to bear before, to carry in front, to hold forth." And, later it was included the meanings of "to offer, to present."
So, this is his form of saying I am, and I choose not to do it from the beginning. It's his affirmation.
I don't agree that all humans are here to create in the sense of creating something new with Nietzsche and Marx that every men should be creating something new and Bartleby as copyist is denying when he affirms - or negates, if using Nietzsche's and Marx's thoughts, I prefer not to.
NO.
Even as a copyist, Bartleby was creating. As Lavoisier said, "In Nature, nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything is transformed."
Some humans are transformative, and this is creation on itself.
Copying an original document is a form of creation when the original document is not the same document anymore. It's transforming. And in the end, it's creating. So, apart from the great citations of Nietzsche, to whom I bow, and Marx, with whom I've my frictions, I don't think that Bartleby was there to negate himself because he was forbidden to create.
There is poetical assertion in not doing what you don't want to…
Beautiful, but sad.
'Oh, humanity!'
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Bartleby and Benito Cereno Herman Melville 9781619493797 Books Reviews
If you love Moby Dick and you still want more Melville checkout Bartleby an Benito Cereno
Reviewed by James David
Author of The Coast Guard Oracle
My rating isn't really an indication that this is a BAD book, but rather that it's really not my cup of tea. I enjoy particular genres in the literature I read and this doesn't really fit into it. I ordered it for class and managed to read it, but I ended up selling it once I was done with it.
It was an effective book
Melville has a tendency to overload his narrative, but since this is a short book it doesn't ruin the tale. The suspense is well-kept, and the dénouement is handled superbly, as Melville always does.
Glad I read them. Lots of food for thought in Bartleby. Lots of drama and history in Benito Cereno. Very different from what I expected, but I have never read Moby Dick, so maybe it's Melville's style.
If you want a taste of Melville without reading a big book like Moby Dick, these might interest you.
Surprisingly, I enjoy these stories! I was fascinated by Melville from what I could research and learn after being curious about who wrote such works. I would say absolutely worth reading over if you enjoy thought provoking story where you're curious what the author is saying in the shadows.
Melville astonishes with two prolific short stories. The diction in Bartlby throws the reader into the narrator's mind and rationale towards the aforementioned 'antagonist', while Benito Cereno defies the credibility of Captain Delano and his interpretation of the ominous and absurd ship. I highly recommend both stories for they are simply works of literary masterpiece!
The story is recounted many years after Bartleby has died by the narrator, or may be by Melville himself.
Well, this is Wall Street.
Bartleby is admitted to be a copyist, a scrivener, in a peculiar office, btw - where 3 employees are already working, each one has his strangeness - and the owner, who proclaims himself as a greedy man only interested in working with the rich men bonds.
To my surprise and, in my opinion, the owner is gentle - not kind - extremely polite, incapable of violence and is too much drawn to the weirdness of his employees, respecting each one of them (which for me, as an owner, would be rather impossible).
Bartleby uses 'I prefer not to', each time he is asked to do something that he is not copying. It's in my opinion, rather then a negation of what his employe demands, an assertion of his human choice.
Just to add some fire to this discussion, when Bartleby prefers not to, he pushes others onto doing something as he will not. As he affirms gently and kindly he prefers not to, or rather, as he hold forth his , making someone do it for him because the World and, specially Wall Street cannot be stopped.
Imagine, for just a moment, if the trio in the office do the same as Bartleby, or even the lawyer, if they prefer not to, what would happen?
He simply preferred not to just because Melville wanted the narrator - and us - to think about the possibility of someone who doesn't exist - or who doesn't want to exist - from the beginning because he affirms instead of negates that he preferred not to.
In fact, this is not a refusal, traced back to its Latin etymology praefero, the first meaning was "to bear before, to carry in front, to hold forth." And, later it was included the meanings of "to offer, to present."
So, this is his form of saying I am, and I choose not to do it from the beginning. It's his affirmation.
I don't agree that all humans are here to create in the sense of creating something new with Nietzsche and Marx that every men should be creating something new and Bartleby as copyist is denying when he affirms - or negates, if using Nietzsche's and Marx's thoughts, I prefer not to.
NO.
Even as a copyist, Bartleby was creating. As Lavoisier said, "In Nature, nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything is transformed."
Some humans are transformative, and this is creation on itself.
Copying an original document is a form of creation when the original document is not the same document anymore. It's transforming. And in the end, it's creating. So, apart from the great citations of Nietzsche, to whom I bow, and Marx, with whom I've my frictions, I don't think that Bartleby was there to negate himself because he was forbidden to create.
There is poetical assertion in not doing what you don't want to…
Beautiful, but sad.
'Oh, humanity!'
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