david wrote:
bartleby was the one story by melville that i got into. maybe
it was all the windows that opened onto brick walls. i
remember an overwhelming sense of confinement. i don't think
the lawyer was intended to be sympathetic. his inaction was
not so different from bartleby's. the dissatisfaction with
modernity makes it the most noirish (if you will) of the
melville's i read in college.
************* One thing I neglected to say was that although
I didn't like the story, I still could see the craftsmanship
in it. I like your comment that the lawyer's reaction is
similar to Bartleby's. That's dead on. All three Melville
stories have struck me as noirish. My preference is for a
gaudy struggle, so Moby Dick was way satisfying. And thumbs
up to noir as a rejection of modernism. That was what Gothic
was all about. Look what science did for Frankenstein.
miker
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