Malte Laurids Brigge, a young Danish poet, lives in poverty in Paris and writes notebook entries about what he sees and remembers. He records the sights and smells of the city, hospitals and the dying, and his childhood in a Danish country house, as well as stories from history and literature. Rainer Maria Rilke's only novel, published in 1910, is made of fragments and meditations on death, fear, love and the task of learning to see.
Readers of poetry and philosophy, and those interested in modernist fiction, will find a book that rewards slow reading. It is not driven by plot but by images and voice.
Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a demanding read.
Best for readers like The Wisdom Collector. Which reader are you?
- Published
- 1900
- Publisher
- Süddeutsche Zeitung Bibliothek Band 26
- ISBN
- 9783937793276
- Language
- DE
Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
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The only journey is the one within.
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Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.
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