The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
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| Author | Rainer Maria Rilke |
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| Original title | Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge |
| Translator | M. D. Herter Norton |
| Language | German |
| Genre | Autobiographical novel |
| Publisher | Insel Verlag |
Publication date | 1910 |
| Publication place | Austria-Hungary |
| Pages | Two volumes; 191 and 186 p. respectively (first edition hardcover) |
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge was Rainer Maria Rilke's only novel, and is said to have greatly influenced such other writers as Jean-Paul Sartre. 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.
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
- Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge at Project Gutenberg Template:De icon
- Original text at zeno.org Template:De icon
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