A groundbreaking masterpiece of early European modernism originally published in 1910, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge unspools the vivid reflections of the titular young Danish nobleman and poet. From his Paris garret, Brigge records his encounters with the city and its outcasts, muses on his family history, and lays bare his earliest experiences of fear, tenderness, and desolation.
With a poetās feel for language and a keen instinct for storytelling, Rainer Maria Rilke forges a dazzlingly fractured coming-of-age narrative, kaleidoscopic in its alternation of vivid present encounters and equally alive memories of childhood. Strikingly contemporary, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge reveals a writer metabolizing his own experiences to yield still-essential questions about fiction and reality, empathy and psychosis, andāabove allālife, love, and death.
In a fascinating introduction, award-winning translator Edward Snow explores the overlaps between Rilkeās experiences and those of his protagonist, and shows with granular attention the novelās capacity for nuance and sympathy. Snowās exquisite translation captures as never before the astonishing cadences and musical clarity of the poetās prose. It reveals The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge as an urgent contemporary achievement, more than one hundred years after it was written.
This book title, Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (A Novel), ISBN: 9781324066088, by Rainer Maria Rilke, Edward Snow, published by W. W. Norton & Company (November 21, 2023) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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