The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge was Rainer Maria Rilke's only novel, and is said to have greatly influenced such other writers as Jean-Paul Sartre. It was written whilst Rilke lived in Paris, and was published in 1910. The novel is semi-autobiographical, and is written in an expressionistic style. The work was inspired by Sigbjørn Obstfelder's work A Priest's Diary and Jens Peter Jacobsen's second novel Niels Lyhne of 1880, which traces the fate of an atheist in a merciless world.

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
AuthorRainer Maria Rilke
Original titleDie Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge
TranslatorM. D. Herter Norton
CountryAustria-Hungary
LanguageGerman
GenreAutobiographical novel
PublisherInsel Verlag
Publication date
1910
PagesTwo volumes; 191 and 186 p. respectively (first edition hardcover)

The book was first issued in English under the title Journal of My Other Self.[1]

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References

  1. M. D. Herter Norton (tr.). New York: W. W. Norton, 1949, 1992. Translator's Foreword, p. 8.


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