73 pages
ISBN 978-0-9801098-8-7
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Bartleby, the Sportscaster
By Ted Pelton
Excerpt
I guess I’m not in an awful darn hurry.
Partly, I wonder what’s the point. Why do I want to find
Bartleby? I’ve never done him any good, nor he me, when you
think about it. I don’t know what I’ll say to him if I do find him.
I’ll probably tell him I was sorry, though I’m not sure for what.
Or maybe I’ll get to Texas and it’ll be some other guy, named
Elbee or Elber. I’ll sit down and talk to him if he’s willing, having
come all that way. I’ve never talked to a murderer. It might be
interesting. At my age, what have I got to lose?
Review
“Ted Pelton has written an allegory about an allegory about real life. The memoir of the end of his first marriage, sandwiched between chapters about a fictional sportscaster and his silent colleague, Bartleby, offers us a sober frame for interpreting the fiction (his and Melville's). More importantly, perhaps, fiction gives us access to the life. Bartleby is real; marriage is allegory. Vice versa, too. Neither life nor art can be imitated in Pelton's novel, for they are one in the same.”
—Susan M. Schultz
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