Is This a Kind of Edgy Protest Politics That Just Gets Caught Up?

"It's hard for me to interpret this as a kind of heroic act that presents it as an insurrectionary figure," he says. "The closest thing i can think of is kofka's hunger artist, eh? Because the hunger artist doesn't, he starves himself to death." It fits in with those other kinds of readings that want to see bartleby as a heroic, heroic figure,. He also has a kind of radical antagonism towards modernity but his primary target, at the end of the day, is always himself.