Abstract
Abstract The essay considers Hermann Melville’s character Bartleby as an example of irresponsible power, since, in the story, the scrivener changes deeply his lawyer employer’s way of thinking and living, without giving any single answer to the many questions which the narrator keeps asking him about his apparently absurd behavior. The article offers some reflections about the difficulties that legal rules, as well as other set of rules (moral, ethics) meet when they are called to face irresponsible powers, and about the need to keep asking questions, though knowing that they will meet no final answers (thus accepting the irrationality of life, and coping with it).
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