The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
First published in Paris in 1910, Rilke's Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is one the first great modernist novels, the account of poet-aspirant Brigge in his exploration of poetic individuality and his reflections on the experience of time as death approaches. This new translation by Burton...
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First published in Paris in 1910, Rilke's Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is one the first great modernist novels, the account of poet-aspirant Brigge in his exploration of poetic individuality and his reflections on the experience of time as death approaches. This new translation by Burton Pike is a reaction to overly stylized previous translations, and aims to capture not only the beauty but also the strangeness, the spirit, of Rilke's German.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393308815 (0393308812)
Publish date: April 17th 1964
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
ChronologyIntroductionNotes to the IntroductionFurther ReadingA Note on the Text--The Notebooks of Malte Laurids BriggeNotes
"Why, to the internally self- devouring rubbish heap of literature, which broadcasts its perfumic stench to every period of history: nothing could be less like him (Rimbaud) than the surrealities, the vitreosities of, for example, the late Rilke."___Thomas BernhardFrom the very beginning the focus o...
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