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Jane Desmarais, « Preferring not to:The Paradox of Passive Resistance in Herman Melville’s “Bartleby” », Journal of the Short Story in English, ID : 10670/1.sqmgpi
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“I would prefer not to.”“You will not?”“I prefer not.” “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (1853) is a story of passive resistance. And as the narrator is forced to admit, “Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.” Refusing to kow-tow to the demands of his employer, and working to his own individual rule, Bartleby represents a challenge to capitalist, corporatist ideologies. He declines to do what is asked of him over and above the basic task of copying documents. He is an unost...