antw. Re: What is Fluck talking about?

[Paul Mackin]

On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 12:59, owen j mcgrann wrote:
> >  what i would really like to know: did melville actually
> >  read german philosophers?
> 
> yes, melville was pretty familiar with schopenhauer at least (it's possible
> to read "bartleby" as a parable of schopenhauerian asceticism and the
> rejection of the will to life).  in his journals and correspondance he talks
> directly about arthur the cheerful.
> 
> cheers,
> - owen
> 
> 
Wasn't his reading of Shopenhauer very late in life? (Billy Budd time)

So that Bartleby was a coincidence.


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