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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge Rainer Maria Rilke

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge By Rainer Maria Rilke

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke


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While his old furniture rots in storage, Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris, with little but a library reader's card to distinguish him from the city's untouchables. Every person he sees seems to carry their death with them, and he thinks of the deaths, and ghosts, of his aristocratic family, of which only he remains.

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge Summary

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke

'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.

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An almost perfect equivalent for the original. -- The New York Review of Books

An extraordinary...translation of one of the world's most beautiful books. -- Philadelphia Inquirer

About Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke was born in 1875 in Prague. He studied literature, art history and philosophy in both Munich and Prague, and is often considered one of the German language's greatest 20th century poets. His two most famous verse sequences are the Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies; his two most famous prose works are the Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.

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GOR008729954
9780241261194
0241261198
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke
Used - Like New
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
20160526
224
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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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