A ground-breaking 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 poet's 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 and-above all-life, love and death. In a fascinating
introduction, award-winning translator Edward Snow explores the
overlaps between Rilke's experiences and those of his protagonist,
and shows with granular attention the novel's capacity for nuance
and sympathy. Snow's exquisite translation captures as never before
the astonishing cadences and musical clarity of the poet's prose.
It reveals The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge as an urgent
contemporary achievement, more than one hundred years after it was
written.
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