The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge was Rainer Maria Rilke's only novel. It was written whilst Rilke lived in Paris, and was published in 1910. The novel is semi-autobiographical, and is written in an expressionistic style. The work was inspired by Sigbjørn Obstfelder's work A Priest's Diary and Jens Peter Jacobsen's second novel Niels Lyhne of 1880, which traces the fate of an atheist in a merciless world.
Author | Rainer Maria Rilke |
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Original title | Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge |
Translator | M. D. Herter Norton |
Country | Austria-Hungary |
Language | German |
Genre | Autobiographical novel |
Publisher | Insel Verlag |
Publication date | 1910 |
Pages | Two volumes; 191 and 186 p. respectively (first edition hardcover) |
The book was first issued in English under the title Journal of My Other Self.[1]
See also
References
- M. D. Herter Norton (tr.). New York: W. W. Norton, 1949, 1992. Translator's Foreword, p. 8.
External links
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- Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge at Project Gutenberg (in German)
- Original text at zeno.org (in German)
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