Commonly held up as an anti-capitalism story, this is actually an anti-Bartleby story. The usual argument is that this story presents the repetitive work of nineteenth century capitalism as dehumanising. Bartleby is taken as a talisman for resistance as a political philosophy.
Bartleby the Scrivener, Herman Melville
Bartleby the Scrivener, Herman Melville
Bartleby the Scrivener, Herman Melville
Commonly held up as an anti-capitalism story, this is actually an anti-Bartleby story. The usual argument is that this story presents the repetitive work of nineteenth century capitalism as dehumanising. Bartleby is taken as a talisman for resistance as a political philosophy.