The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext "Translator Burton Pike captures the edgy, haunting beauty of this little-known masterpiece." O Magazine Zusammenfassung 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 new 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.

Product details

• Authors: Burton Pike, Rainer Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke, Rainer Maria/ Pike Rilke
• Assisted by: Burton Pike (Translation)
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.10.2008
• EAN: 9781564784971
• ISBN: 978-1-56478-497-1
• No. of pages: 236
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 205 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Austrian Literature Series; German and Austrian Literature; German and Austrian Literature Series
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature