Bartleby

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

On Mon, 13 May 2002 KXX4493553 at aol.com wrote:

> he is more modern and more radical,
> more radical than the "Hungerkuenstler" of Kafka...


Well, *I* should have known the GD article when writing
a Melville piece (which, luckily, only touches "Bartleby").
And I agree: perhaps it's even more radical than anything
by Beckett... It was a certain claustrophobically
bureaucratic atmosphere in both Gogol's St Petersburg
stories and Melville's Wall Street story, not so much their
protagonists, that brought about the comparison.


Heikki


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