The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (in German: Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge), published in 1910, was Rainer Maria Rilke's only book-sized work of prose. The narrative takes the form of a rambling novelette filled with poetic language and contains, among other things, a retelling of the prodigal son tale, a striking description of death by illness, an ode to the joys of roaming free during childhood, a chilling description of how people wear false faces with others, and a snarky comment about the weirdness of neighbors.
The book was first issued in English under the title Journal of My Other Self.[1]
English translations
- John Linton (Norton, 1930; Hogarth Press, 1930). Originally published under the title The Journal of My Other Self.
- Mary D. Herter Norton (Norton, 1949)
- Stephen Mitchell (Random House, 1982)
- Burton Pike (Dalkey Archive, 2008)
- Michael Hulse (Penguin, 2009)
- Robert Vilain (Oxford, 2016)
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, available at Project Gutenberg. Template:In lang