The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

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Rainer Maria Rilke Robert Vilain (Professor of German and Head of the School of Modern Languages, Professor of German and Head of the School of Modern Languages, University of Bristol)

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Vilain (Professor of German and Head of the School of Modern Languages, Professor of German and Head of the School of Modern Languages, University of Bristol)

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English

Worlds Classics
26 May 2016

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Fiction in translation

Series: Oxford World's Classics

The young Danish aristocrat Malte Laurids Brigge has been left rootless by the early death of his parents. Now living in Paris, Malte begins to record his life in a series of loosely connected notes, diary entries, prose poems, parables and stories, ostensibly collected by a fictional editor to form the Notebooks. Focusing on Malte's observations and experiences in the present, recollections of his childhood and family, and his reflections on historical events, these notes in highly crafted poetic prose explore the themes of life in the metropolis, poverty, sickness and death, love, memory and time, and perception and language.

The only extended prose work by the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is a landmark in the development of the twentieth-century novel. It marks a radical departure from nineteenth-century realism, transcending conventions of linear narrative to reflect a consciousness in crisis, and an archetypal confrontation with the modern.

By: Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by: Robert Vilain (Professor of German and Head of the School of Modern Languages Professor of German and Head of the School of Modern Languages University of Bristol)
Imprint: Worlds Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 195mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 206g
ISBN: 9780199646036
ISBN 10: 0199646031
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Publication Date: 26 May 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

A brilliant new translation. JC, the Lady Reading Notebooks had a strange, dreamlike effect on me; the lines between past and present, real and unreal seemed blurred and it's a book that in many ways is hard to get a handle on.g the effort worthwhile, and I'm keen now to read some of Rilke's poetry. Shiney New Books Notebooks was an absorbing read, with the often beautiful and evocative prose making the effort worthwhile, and I'm keen now to read some of Rilke's poetry. Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings