The notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
By: [by] Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by John Linton
Publisher: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf, The Hogarth Press, Tavistock square
Published: 1930
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 243
Work titles: Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge
Description: This work is generally accepted as Rilke's most important prose work. It is autobiographical fiction, for Rilke thinly veils his own experiences under a romantic record of the memories, impressions and vicissitudes of an impoverished Danish poet living in Paris. A masterpiece of creative art and delicate portraiture, it is also an important document, throwing light on the genius of a great poet, whose work is a bold synthesis of Eastern mysticism and Western art. [Book jacket].