Herman Melville. Bartleby the Scrivener
Description
This is Melville's sardonic and symbolic story of a copyist at a Wall Street law firm who refuses to conform, responding to all requests with, "I prefer not to." Autobiographical in its despair over the public's failure to understand the writer, prophetic in its foreshadowing of 20th-Century Absurdism, "Bartleby the Scrivener" provides a window into the work of Melville and a convincing argument that he may be at his best in the short story medium.
Runtime
59 min
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Contributor
Genre
Date of Publication
[2006], c1977
Database
Films on Demand
Direct Link
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