Herman Melville

Bartleby, The Scrivener. A Story of Wall-Street (Annotated) Herman Melville

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The purpose of realizing this historical context is to approach the understanding of a historical epoch from the elements provided by the text. Hence the importance of placing the document in context. It is necessary to unravel what its author or authors have said, how it has been said, when, why and where, always relating it to its historical moment. Bartleby, the scribe (Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street) is a story by Herman Melville (the author of Moby Dick), disconcerting while the personality of one of the protagonists has raised countless theories about it. The story begins with the first person voice of a man who owns a copy office for legal documents in downtown Wall Street. A man comes to him applying for a job: Bartleby. He is an effective worker (he copies documents without errors, he is the first to arrive and the last to leave) but, before another class of requests, the only thing he can answer is: he would rather not do so (I would prefer not to). IN THAT ATTITUDE I WAS WHEN I TOLD HIM WHAT I SHOULD DO, THIS IS, EXAMINING WITH ME A BRIEF DOCUMENT. IMAGINE MY SURPRISE, NO, MY CONSTERNATION WHEN, WITHOUT MOVING FROM YOUR DESK, BARTLEBY, WITH A STRONGLY SOFT VOICE AND SIGNED, ANSWERED: