num_pages: 1631
description: The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is Rilke’s major prose work and was one of the earliest publications to introduce him to American readers. The very wide audience which Rilke’s work commands today will welcome the reissue in paperback of this extremely perceptive translation of the Notebooks by M. D. Herter Norton. A masterly translation of one of the first great modernist novels by one of the German language's greatest poets, in which a young man named Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris while his belongings rot in storage. Every person he sees seems to carry their death within them and with little but a library card to distinguish him from the city's untouchables, he thinks of the deaths, and ghosts, of his aristocratic family, of which he is the sole living descendant. Suffused with passages of lyrical brilliance, Rilke's semi-autobiographical novel is a moving and powerful coming-of-age story.
language: English
title: Sämtliche Werke VI. Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge. Prosa 1906 bis 1926.
titlecomplete: Sämtliche Werke VI. Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge. Prosa 1906 bis 1926.
characters: Malte Laurids Brigge
genres: 20th Century, Literature, German Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Philosophy, Germany, Fiction, Poetry
ratings_count: 8543
places: Paris
publisher: Insel, Ffm.