【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞＜strong＞A marvelous novel by one of Spain's most important contemporary authors, in which a clerk in a Barcelona office takes us on a romping tour of world literature.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In ＜em＞Bartleby &Co.＜/em＞, an enormously enjoyable novel, Enrique Vila-Matas tackles the theme of silence in literature: the writers and non-writers who, like the scrivener Bartleby of the Herman Melville story, in answer to any question or demand, replies: "I would prefer not to." Addressing such "artists of refusal" as Robert Walser, Robert Musil, Arthur Rimbaud, Marcel Duchamp, Herman Melville, and J. D. Salinger, ＜em＞Bartleby &Co.＜/em＞ could be described as a meditation: a walking tour through the annals of literature. Written as a series of footnotes (a non-work itself), ＜em＞Bartleby＜/em＞ embarks on such questions as why do we write, why do we exist? The answer lies in the novel itself: tol...