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Title	:	The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Author	:	Rainer Maria Rilke
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 237 pages
Published	:	April 17th 1992 by W. W. Norton Company (first published 1910)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. European Literature. German Literature. Poetry. Literature

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge Paperback | Pages: 237 pages

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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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Original Title:	Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge
ISBN:	0393308812 (ISBN13: 9780393308815)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Malte Laurids Brigge
Setting:	Paris(France)

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Ratings: 4.03 From 6824 Users | 390 Reviews

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Easily one of the best books I've read all year and probably one that will stay at the top of my list for years to come.There is something I want to carry around with me from every page, whether it's just a short string of words or a body of paragraphs. A meditation on life and death that is devastating, insightful, striking, and beautiful.The imagery sings, or sometimes howls, off the page: a building on fire, the people looking on in silence until the walls come crashing down. Were going

I won't say that I fully understood everything, which I haven't(Though it's possibly impossible). All that I know is that this little piece of work carries everything I define as "Rilke's spirit", through the language, the themes, the actions described. Did I wonder before how Rilke's poetry would be in prose form? Well, I sure as hell know now.The main theme seems to be death: How people die, how we die ourselves and that most people don't even care anymore to pick a death suitable to them or

This is one of those books Ive beaten my head against many times, started and stopped, bought then resold then re-bought in a rainbow of different editions. Now that Burton Pikes taken it onthe same Burton Pike who brought Robert Musil to life in Englishthe gauzy bard of angels and towers gets helpfully pulled down to his home planet, a Paris where homelessness and loneliness turn the City of Lights into the crèche of Europe's disenchanted modernity. Wobbling epistemes never sounded so good.

Upon reading The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge one is left haunted by the wonderfully poetic prose, but in possession of only a vague notion of what the book was about. Through a series of disjointed vignettes, Rilke opens a window into the soul of his protagonist, but the view is as from a moving vehicle: the scenery is constantly changing, and one can only glimpse at the detail. The Notebooks blend the mythic with the mundane, combining obscure ancient tales and anecdotes about everyday

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Sometimes choosing a star rating can be difficult. To avoid falling trap to such uncertainty, I try to stick as formally to the description as possible (ie: 1= didnt like, 2= it was ok, 3=liked it, etc.). What gets really hairy, though, is when I have to reconcile liked with appreciated, which can be at odds and which happens occasionally with literature. This is made all the tougher when I already have it in my head that I should like, or at the very least appreciate, a book because people

Rilke gehört zu meinen Lieblingsdichtern. Ich habe die Gedichte von Rilke und seine Bücher "Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge" sowie "Briefe an einen jungen Dichter" gelesen und würde diese weiter empfehlen.