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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

This remarkable book is the only novel by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), the greatest German-language poet of his time. It is, in a sense, a true curiosity - dark and intense - and possesses, not surprisingly, strong elements of autobiography.

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge) has even been described as an anti-novel. It is set in Paris in the period just before the First World War, but it presents a bleaker milieu than that described by Proust. The language is terse, the atmosphere painful, the images uncompromising. Rilke drew on the short period he spent in Paris in 1903 where, in contrast to the rural circumstances in which he had lived before, he found the underbelly of urban life distressing. He saw the sick, the vagrants, the beggars and those descending into mental and emotional confusion and despair. And he worried that he, too, might become like them.

This is the theme he explores in The Notebooks in a first-person torrent of observation and reflection. Malte, a young Dane with little money but with the aspiration to be a poet, expresses a continuing uncertainty and unease, in the form of a diary, without obvious timeline or direction, except for its increasing intensity. Published in 1910, The Notebooks is a striking contrast to the crafted, polished poetry for which Rilke was better known. It has affected and been admired by many writers since, including Jean-Paul Sartre. Jamie Parker’s reading underpins the fear and the tension of the work.

Translation William Needham.


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    Rainer Maria Rilke

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  2. Existentialism: Philosophical and Literary Works : Notes from Underground. Fear and Trembling. Ecce Homo. The Metamorphosis and others

    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Soren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Kafka

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  3. Letters to a Young Poet

    Rainer Maria Rilke

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  4. Poems : Evening, Mary Virgin, Presaging, Autumn, Silent Hour, The Angels and many others

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  6. Valda dikter

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  7. Ausgewählte Beiträge über Kunst und Literatur : Briefe an einen jungen Dichter + Hermann Hesse + Buddenbrooks + Worpswede + Auguste Rodin…

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  8. Das Stunden-Buch

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  9. Lyrikalische Bibliothek

    Heinrich Heine, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Charles Baudelaire, John Keats, Rainer Maria Rilke, Georg Heym, Wilhelm Busch, Arno Holz, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Christian Morgenstern, Joachim Ringelnatz, Georg Trakl, Ludwig Tieck, Stefan Zweig, Hugo von Hoffmannsthal, Edgar Allan Poe, Frank Wedekind, Franz Werfel, Wolfgang Borchert, Karl Kraus, Kurt Tucholsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Else Lasker-Schüler, Ludwig Kalisch, Jakob van Hoddis, Joseph von Eichendorff, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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  10. Lyrikalische Lesung Episoden 91-95

    Arno Holz, John Keats, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Charles Baudelaire, Rainer Maria Rilke

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  11. Lyrikalische Lesung Episoden 76-80

    Christian Morgenstern, Karl Kraus, Wolfgang Borchert, Kurt Tucholsky, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, John Keats, Rainer Maria Rilke

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  12. Lyrikalische Lesung Episoden 66-70

    John Keats, Wilhelm Busch, Ludwig Tieck, Rainer Maria Rilke, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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