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Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge #1
Die Aufzeichnungen des (The Notebooks of) Malte Laurids Brigge - Vol 1 (of 2) [German English Bilingual Edition]
Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge (The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge) is a 1910 novel (his only novel) by Rainer Maria Rilke.
The reader follows Malte, a young Danish nobleman who has left his family home in favor of the life of a romantic poet and who suffers from fits of remembrance, who wanders the streets of Paris. He also suffers from an acute anxiety caused in the search for the love that gives of itself.
The novel is semi-autobiographical, and is written in an expressionistic style and addresses existential themes - the quest for individuality, the significance of death, and reflection on the experience of time as death approaches.
The title was included by Le Monde in the 100 Books of the Century, a list of the one hundred best books of the 20th century.
About the Author
Rainer Maria Rilke (December 4, 1875 – December 29, 1926) was born in Prague. By the time he enrolled at university he knew that he would pursue a literary career, having published his first volume of poetry the year before.
In 1902 he became the friend, and for a time the secretary, of Rodin, and it was during his twelve-year Paris residence that Rilke enjoyed his greatest poetic activity.
Some of his best known works include the poetry collections Duineser Elegien (Duino Elegies), Die Sonette an Orpheus (Sonnets to Orpheus), the semi-autobiographical Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge (The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge), and a collection of ten letters that was published after his death under the title Briefe an einen jungen Dichter (Letters to a Young Poet).
He died of leukemia on December 29, 1926.
The reader follows Malte, a young Danish nobleman who has left his family home in favor of the life of a romantic poet and who suffers from fits of remembrance, who wanders the streets of Paris. He also suffers from an acute anxiety caused in the search for the love that gives of itself.
The novel is semi-autobiographical, and is written in an expressionistic style and addresses existential themes - the quest for individuality, the significance of death, and reflection on the experience of time as death approaches.
The title was included by Le Monde in the 100 Books of the Century, a list of the one hundred best books of the 20th century.
About the Author
Rainer Maria Rilke (December 4, 1875 – December 29, 1926) was born in Prague. By the time he enrolled at university he knew that he would pursue a literary career, having published his first volume of poetry the year before.
In 1902 he became the friend, and for a time the secretary, of Rodin, and it was during his twelve-year Paris residence that Rilke enjoyed his greatest poetic activity.
Some of his best known works include the poetry collections Duineser Elegien (Duino Elegies), Die Sonette an Orpheus (Sonnets to Orpheus), the semi-autobiographical Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge (The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge), and a collection of ten letters that was published after his death under the title Briefe an einen jungen Dichter (Letters to a Young Poet).
He died of leukemia on December 29, 1926.
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First published September 30, 2013
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Rainer Maria Rilke
1,809 books6,967 followersA mystic lyricism and precise imagery often marked verse of German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, whose collections profoundly influenced 20th-century German literature and include
The Book of Hours
(1905) and
The Duino Elegies
(1923).
People consider him of the greatest 20th century users of the language.
His haunting images tend to focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety — themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets.
His two most famous sequences include the Sonnets to Orpheus , and his most famous prose works include the Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge .
He also wrote more than four hundred poems in French, dedicated to the canton of Valais in Switzerland, his homeland of choice.
People consider him of the greatest 20th century users of the language.
His haunting images tend to focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety — themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets.
His two most famous sequences include the Sonnets to Orpheus , and his most famous prose works include the Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge .
He also wrote more than four hundred poems in French, dedicated to the canton of Valais in Switzerland, his homeland of choice.
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