Bartleby

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Mon May 13 03:43:19 CDT 2002


Thanks, Heikki, for the hint: I should have known this:-). But, I think 
Bartleby is different from Oblomov... he is more modern and more radical, 
more radical than the "Hungerkuenstler" of Kafka...



In einer eMail vom 13.05.2002 09:27:06 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt 
hraudask at mail.student.oulu.fi:


> Deleuze has written this essay, "Bartleby; or, The Formula",
> which is included in _Essays Critical and Clinical_. (U of
> Minnesota Press 1997.) Deleuze sees that the agrammatically
> incomplete "formula" of "I prefer not to" opens a rip in the
> fabric of the social, confronting the social with something
> it does not know how to react to, stymieing [sp?] all speech
> acts....or something.
> 
> Am 100% sure that the essay has been translated not only into
> English but also German and other major European languages, as
> it exists in Finnish...
> 
> 


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