| The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge Contributor(s): Rilke, Rainer Maria (Author), Pike, Burton (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1564784975 ISBN-13: 9781564784971 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $12.56 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2008 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 |
| LCCN: 2008016100 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.54" W x 7.9" (0.63 lbs) 198 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: First published 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. |