Bartleby, el escribiente

A young man is hired in a Wall Street notary's office, in New York at the dawn of a "new world", bureaucratized and capitalist. His name is Bartleby. In charge of copying legal acts, he shows an admirable efficiency and his energy is so contagious that he pushes his colleagues to give their best. One day everything changes. His boss asks him to collate some documents to verify them - a normal, routine job, although unrelated to the task for which he was hired; and he answers politely, but firmly: "I'd rather not do it." Little by little, Bartleby will decline every proposition, every offer of help, even the final exhortation to leave the job, with those few words, "I'd rather not do it," which he repeats like a mantra... Bartleby's resistance is mysterious . He is the personification of the absolute enigma. He does not show any arrogance or rebellion, but instead a stubborn fragility, a certain melancholy and, perhaps, a deaf hopelessness. José Luis Munuera appropriates Herman Melville's story in an adaptation that provides a unique look at the original text, a fascinating story about obedience and passive resistance.