巴托比，美国文学巨擘梅尔维尔笔下一位以“我宁愿不”来拒绝一切的诡异角色，竟跃出纸页化身为一种病毒，弥漫在文学世界中，让众多作家无法下笔。得上巴托比症的人都无药可治，而任何抵抗此病的举动亦是徒劳。本书的叙述者是便是一位“巴托比”患者，他年轻时曾写过一本小说，但因为某种心灵创伤，他拒绝再写。直到某一天，他开始写日记，记录那些和他同病相怜的作家封笔之谜。奇怪的是，他的日记里看不见正文，只有脚注，好像正文被某种不知名的病毒吞噬了……
作者简介
恩里克•比拉-马塔斯（Enrique Vila-Matas）是西班牙目前最重要的作家。目前已经出版了近三十部著作，体裁包括短篇、小说、随笔和论文集。2000年之前，他的文学声誉主要局限于西语世界、法国、意大利、葡萄牙和巴西等地。但随着《巴托比症候群》的成功，比拉-马塔斯逐渐被其他语言国家的读者接纳，影响力迅速扩大，他的作品已被翻译十余种语言在全球发行，并被媒体看作近年来诺贝尔文学奖的又一热门人选。
2013年，法国重要的文学期刊《文学杂志》将比拉-马塔斯与诺贝尔奖获得者莫言、爱丽斯•门罗、帕慕克等诺贝尔文学奖得主一起并列为当今最具影响力的作家之一。
比拉-马塔斯还和波拉尼奥私交甚好，波拉尼奥甚至断言：“在当今的西班牙文坛上，比拉-马塔斯无人能及。”比拉-马塔斯还被波拉尼奥以一个角色写进了短篇集《地球上最后的夜晚》中。
西班牙著名导演阿尔莫多瓦也说过自己最钟爱比拉-马塔斯的小说。
Bartleby, a strange character described by Melville as "I would rather not" to refuse everything, has leapt out of the page and become a virus that permeates the literary world and makes many writers unable to write. There is no cure for Bartleby's disease, and any attempt to fight it is futile. The narrator of the book is a Bartleby patient who wrote a novel when he was young, but because of some kind of trauma, he refused to write another. Until one day, he began to keep a diary, recording the mystery of those writers who were in the same boat with him. Strangely, there was no text to be seen in his diary, only footnotes, as if the text had been devoured by some unknown virus...
About the author
Enrique Vila-Matas is the most important writer in Spain today. He has published nearly 30 books in short stories, novels, essays and essays. Before 2000, his literary fame was largely confined to the Spanish-speaking world, France, Italy, Portugal, and Brazil. However, with the success of Bartleby Syndrome, Bila-Matas has gradually been accepted by readers in other languages, and his influence has expanded rapidly. His works have been translated into more than ten languages and published worldwide, and he has been regarded by the media as another hot candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature in recent years.
In 2013, the leading French literary journal La Lettres ranked Villa-Matas as one of the most influential writers today, along with Nobel Prize winners Mo Yan, Alice Munro, and Pamuk.
Vila-matas and Bolano are also very close personal, Bolano even asserted: "In the Spanish literary world today, Vila-Matas is unmatched." Vila-matas was also featured as a character in Bolano's short collection Last Night on Earth.
Almodovar, a famous Spanish director, has also said that he loves Vila-Matas's novels most.
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