The Notebooks Of Malte Laurids Brigge
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A landmark of early modernist fiction, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge chronicles the fragmented inner life of a young Danish nobleman adrift in the overwhelming streets of Paris at the turn of the twentieth century. Through a series of diary-like entries, Rilke's only novel presents a deeply introspective portrait of poverty, mortality, memory, and the terror of modern existence, as Malte confronts the city's dying and dispossessed with raw, unflinching sensitivity. The prose moves fluidly between present observation and haunting recollections of Malte's aristocratic Danish childhood, illustrating how the past and present collapse into one another within a consciousness on the edge of dissolution. Written with lyrical intensity and philosophical depth, the novel argues implicitly that authentic existence demands a radical openness to fear, solitude, and the strangeness of being alive. Widely regarded as a precursor to the existentialist novel and a bridge between nineteenth-century Romanticism and twentieth-century modernism, it remains one of the most beautifully unsettling works in the European literary canon.
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Format: Hardback
Published: 1983, Random House
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A landmark of early modernist fiction, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge chronicles the fragmented inner life of a young Danish nobleman adrift in the overwhelming streets of Paris at the turn of the twentieth century. Through a series of diary-like entries, Rilke's only novel presents a deeply introspective portrait of poverty, mortality, memory, and the terror of modern existence, as Malte confronts the city's dying and dispossessed with raw, unflinching sensitivity. The prose moves fluidly between present observation and haunting recollections of Malte's aristocratic Danish childhood, illustrating how the past and present collapse into one another within a consciousness on the edge of dissolution. Written with lyrical intensity and philosophical depth, the novel argues implicitly that authentic existence demands a radical openness to fear, solitude, and the strangeness of being alive. Widely regarded as a precursor to the existentialist novel and a bridge between nineteenth-century Romanticism and twentieth-century modernism, it remains one of the most beautifully unsettling works in the European literary canon.