num_pages: 243
description: Based on Rilke's own experience, this is the story of an impoverished Danish poet and nobleman leading a solitary existence in Paris at the turn of the century. Fascinated by squalor, he observes the misfits and out-casts of society--victims of fate like himself.
language: German
title: The Notebook of Malte Laurids Brigge
titlecomplete: The Notebook of Malte Laurids Brigge (20th Century Classics)
characters: Malte Laurids Brigge
genres: 20th Century, Literature, German Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Philosophy, Germany, Fiction, Poetry
ratings_count: 8543
places: Paris
publisher: Oxford University Press