Rainer Maria Rilke

Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge: A Novel (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Snow, Edward

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A stunning, revelatory new translation of the only novel by one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, from one of the most trustworthy and exhilarating of Rilke's contemporary translators (Michael Dirda, Washington Post).

A groundbreaking 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, andabove alllife, 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393882094
• Artikelnr.: 63612524

Autorenporträt

Rainer Maria Rilke (18751926), the author of Sonnets to Orpheus, Duino Elegies, and Letters to a Young Poet, was one of the greatest poets of the German language.