Rainer Maria Rilke

Michael Hulse

In a new translation of a classic work, young Malte lives in a cheap room in Paris with nothing but library books to keep him company, a humble existence during which he perceives death in everyone he meets and remembers the painful demise of his once-aristocratic family. Original.

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

The notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

Beautiful musings,  certainly overtook how I journaled for quite a bit

Clay Carey

this is why all poets should be required to write at least one novel

lily taggart

weli 

Danielle Martin

logan chung

Seth Kalback

Hellboy TCR

Nataliavol

Nat Lim

'There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.' This dreamlike meditation on being young and alone in Paris is a feverish work of nerves, angst and sublime beauty from one of the twentieth century's greatest poets. A new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers.

Prashant Prasad

David

CHLOÉ MICHEL

Joshua Line

*emmie*

This is the definitive, widely acclaimed translation of the major prose work of one of our century's greatest poets -- "a masterpiece like no other" (Elizabeth Hardwick) -- Rilke's only novel, extraordinary for its structural uniqueness and purity of language. First published in 1910, it has proven to be one of the most influential and enduring works of fiction of our century. Malte Laurids Brigge is a young Danish nobleman and poet living in Paris. Obsessed with death and with the reality that lurks behind appearances, Brigge muses on his family and their history and on the teeming, alien life of the city. Many of the themes and images that occur in Rilke's poetry can also be found in the novel, prefiguring the modernist movement in its self-awareness and imagistic immediacy.

A Novel

Sarah Selden

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

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