Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

Présentation de l'éditeur First published in Paris in 1910, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is one of the first great modernist novels, by one of the most important German poets of the twentieth century, in which Rilke's poet-aspirant Brigge explores poetic individuality and reflects on his experience of time as death approaches. This new translation by Burton Pike is a reaction to overly-stylised previous attempts, and aims to capture the beauty, strangeness and spirit of Rilke's German. Biographie de l'auteur Rainer Maria Rilke was born in Prague in 1875 and traveled throughout Europe for much of his adult life, returning frequently to Paris. There he came under the influence of the sculptor Auguste Rodin and produced much of his finest verse, most notably the two volumes of "New Poems "as well as the great modernist novel "The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge." Among his other books of poems are "The Book of Images" and "The Book of Hours. "He lived the last years of his life in Switzerland, where he completed his two poetic masterworks, the "Duino Elegies" and "Sonnets to Orpheus." He died of leukemia in December 1926. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is considered one of the greatest poets who ever wrote in the German language. His most famous works are Sonnets to Orpheus, The Duino Elegies, Letters to a Young Poet, and The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. His collected work is comprised of hundreds of other poems, essays, plays, and stories.