Rainer Maria Rilke

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

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First published in 1910, Rilke's Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is one the first great modernist novels, the account of poet-aspirant Brigge in his exploration of poetic individuality and his reflections on the experience of time as death approaches. This translation by Burton Pike is a reaction to overly stylized previous translations, and aims to capture not only the beauty but also the strangeness, the spirit, of Rilke's German.
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247 printed pages
Original publication
2008
Publication year
2008
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  • Stine Weirsøe Flamanthas quoted3 years ago
    So, this is where people come in order to live, I would have rather thought: to die.
  • Lisbeth Dina Jensenhas quoted6 years ago
    Is it possible, this nothing thinks, that one has not yet seen, recognized, and said anything real and important? Is it possible that one has had thousands of years of time to look, reflect, and write down, and that one has let the millennia pass away like a school recess in which one eats one’s sandwich and an apple?
    Yes, it is possible.
    Is it possible that in spite of inventions and progress, in spite of culture, religion, and worldly wisdom, that one has remained on the surface of life? Is it possible that one has even covered this surface, which would at least have been something, with an incredibly dull slipcover, so that it looks like living-room furniture during the summer vacation?
    Yes, it is possible.
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