The Notebooks Of Malte Laurids Brigge: A Novel

by RAINER MARIA RILKE

2021-06-05 00:56:24

This is the definitive, widely acclaimed translation of the major prose work of one of our century''s greatest poets -- "a masterpiece like no other" (Elizabeth Hardwick) -- Rilke''s only novel, extraordinary for its structural uniqueness a... Read more
This is the definitive, widely acclaimed translation of the major prose work of one of our century''s greatest poets -- "a masterpiece like no other" (Elizabeth Hardwick) -- Rilke''s only novel, extraordinary for its structural uniqueness and purity of language. First published in 1910, it has proven to be one of the most influential and enduring works of fiction of our century.

Malte Laurids Brigge is a young Danish nobleman and poet living in Paris. Obsessed with death and with the reality that lurks behind appearances, Brigge muses on his family and their history and on the teeming, alien life of the city. Many of the themes and images that occur in Rilke''s poetry can also be found in the novel, prefiguring the modernist movement in its self-awareness and imagistic immediacy. Less

Book Details

File size7.72 X 5.08 X 0.27 in
Print pages272
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date April 12, 2016
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780679732457
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 Dec 1875 – 29 Dec 1926) was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist. He is "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets"...

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