Bartleby

English Etymology From the fictional character (of the same name) from the short story Bartleby, the Scrivener. Noun s A person, usually a man, who chooes not to participate in many activities because he would prefer not to. en One suspects that the Bartleby of 1890 would have been encouraged to blow off some steam by splurging at one of the new department stores up Broadway. 21 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Idle_Threats/sXM4mtKqAXgC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22the+bartleby+of%22+-scrivener+-melville&dq=%22the+bartleby+of%22+-scrivener+-melville&printsec=frontcover University of Minnesota Idle Threats: The Limits of Productivity in 19th-century America Andrew Lyndon Knighton 2004 en A lot of his releases have titles shat begin with "Con", but there's no scam to his scheme; he's just the Bartleby of the avant garde. Tour? Do press? Collaborate? He would prefer not to. 61 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Wire/UypMAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22the+bartleby+of%22+-scrivener+-melville&dq=%22the+bartleby+of%22+-scrivener+-melville&printsec=frontcover C. Parker The Wire 275-280 2007 en 1925 A brilliant study of negativity, Carol is the Bartleby of American cinema. 73 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_Yorker/TSo9wz_60A8C?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22the+bartleby+of%22+-scrivener+-melville&dq=%22the+bartleby+of%22+-scrivener+-melville&printsec=frontcover F-R Publishing Company The New Yorker 91 en In interviews, however, Padrós has insisted that he was never a fully integrated member of the group either socially or professionally and rarely participated in Aixelà's collective film projects because he always had to leave early to return to Terrassa to go to work at the bank the next day. Joan M. Minguet aptly describes Padrós as the Bartleby of Spanish and Catalan film: both a part and apart. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Spanish_Cinema_against_Itself/45zSDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22the+bartleby+of%22+-scrivener+-melville&pg=PT129&printsec=frontcover Indiana Unviersity Press Spanish Cinema Against Itself: Cosmopolitanism, Experimentation, Militancy Steven Marsh 2020 en terms derived from fiction eponyms en Fictional characters