| The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Briggs Critical Edition Contributor(s): Rilke, Rainer Maria (Author), Hulse, Michael (Introduction by), Hulse, Michael (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0141182210 ISBN-13: 9780141182216 Publisher: Penguin Group OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2009 Annotation: First published in Paris 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Penguin Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5.12" W x 7.74" (0.36 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A masterly new translation of one of the first great modernist novels In the only novel by one of the German language's greatest poets, a young man named Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris while his belongings rot in storage. Every person he sees seems to carry their death with them, and with little but a library card to distinguish him from the city's untouchables, he thinks of the deaths, and ghosts, of his aristocratic family, of which he is the sole living descendant. Suffused with passages of lyrical brilliance, Rilke's semi-autobiographical novel is a moving and powerful coming-of-age story. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |