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Herman melville s tale of corporate discontent, bartleby, the scrivener, tells the story of a quiet, hardworking legal copyist who works in an office in the wall street area of new york city. On november 15, 1959, in the small town of holcomb, kansas, four members of the clutter family. Having two scriveners in his employ, the lawyer advertises for a third to meet demand. The work is said to have been inspired, in part, by melvilles reading of emerson, and some have pointed to specific parallels to emersons essay. Livre audio bartleby, the scrivener herman melville. Herman melville wrote this story in 1853, two years after moby dick had been published and his writing career was beginning to lose its luster. He runs an advertisement for a scrivener, or professional copyist, for his office and bartleby responds to his advertisement and comes to work for the lawyer. In the story, a wall street lawyer hires a new clerk who, after an initial bout of hard work, refuses. From the theater of the absurd, comes a strange tragicomical story wonderfully dramatized.
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