Efekt kompresji. Bartleby, czyli tajemnica inności

Compression Effect. Bartleby, or the Mystery of Otherness The text proposes to read Scrivener as a case modern genealogy Otherness. aporias in Melville’s intertextual prose loudly reverberate theology and philosophy – therefore one cannot novella without referencing Bible but also writings Blanchot, Derrida, Levinas, Deleuze. Bartleby owes his popularity genius Melville, who, by commenting on America times, included short prosaic works hundreds ambiguous internally contradictory tropes. which we now call have been discussed such contemporary critics Žižek Butler, who formula “I would prefer not to” see outline an emancipatory project late-modernity capitalism. “Compression Effect” is literary testimony experience new community faces “excess” politically religiously engaged texts with simultaneous “shortage” divinity life institutionalized modernity.