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.
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