Rainer Maria Rilke

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 133mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 305g
• ISBN-13: 9780393308815
• ISBN-10: 0393308812
• Artikelnr.: 22441341

Autorenporträt

Rainer Maria Rilke (December 4, 1875-December 29, 1926) was an Austrian poet and writer. Known for his lyrically potent work, he combined subjective mysticism with precise observation of the objective world. At the time of his death, Rilke's work was incredibly admired by certain circles of European artists, but mostly unknown to the public. Since then, his popularity has grown steadily, and he has come to be universally regarded as a master of verse.