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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.
'What matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now.' A
hugely influential collection for writers and artists of all kinds,
Rilke's profound and lyrical letters to a young friend advise on
writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself. One
of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to
celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives
readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with
works from around the world and across the centuries - including
fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles
and elephants.
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When I Go (Hardcover)
Rainer Maria Rilke; Translated by Susanne Petermann; Foreword by David H. Rosen
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R1,051
R891
Discovery Miles 8 910
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Cat Poems (Paperback)
Elizabeth Bishop, Stevie Smith, Ezra Pound, Charles Baudelaire, William Carlos Williams, …
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R261
Discovery Miles 2 610
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You Know How a Cat
will bring a mouse it has
caught and lay it at your
feet so each morning I
bring you a poem that
I've written when I woke
up in the night as my tribute
to your beauty &
a promise of my love.
-James Laughlin
Across the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with companionship, affection, mystery, and innumerable metaphors. Cats raise a mirror up to their beholders; cats endlessly captivate and hypnotise, frustrate and delight. To poets, in particular, these enigmatic creatures are the most delightful and beguiling of muses, as they purr, prowl, hunt, play, meow, and nap, often oblivious to their so-called masters. Cat Poems offers a litter of odes to our beloved felines by some of the greatest poets of all time.
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