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Author | Rainer Maria Rilke |
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Original title | Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge |
Translator | M. D. Herter Norton |
Country | Austria-Hungary |
Language | German |
Genre | Expressionist novel |
Publisher | Insel Verlag |
Publication date | 1910 |
Pages | Two volumes; 191 and 186 p. respectively (first edition hardcover) |
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, first published as The Journal of My Other Self, [1] is a 1910 novel by Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke. The novel was the only work of prose of considerable length that he wrote and published. It is semiautobiographical and is written in an expressionistic style, with existentialist themes. It was conceptualized and written whilst Rilke lived in Paris, mainly inspired by Sigbjørn Obstfelder's A Priest's Diary and Jens Peter Jacobsen's Niels Lyhne.
You can help expand this article with text translated from
the corresponding article in German. (June 2019) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
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Author | Rainer Maria Rilke |
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Original title | Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge |
Translator | M. D. Herter Norton |
Country | Austria-Hungary |
Language | German |
Genre | Expressionist novel |
Publisher | Insel Verlag |
Publication date | 1910 |
Pages | Two volumes; 191 and 186 p. respectively (first edition hardcover) |
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, first published as The Journal of My Other Self, [1] is a 1910 novel by Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke. The novel was the only work of prose of considerable length that he wrote and published. It is semiautobiographical and is written in an expressionistic style, with existentialist themes. It was conceptualized and written whilst Rilke lived in Paris, mainly inspired by Sigbjørn Obstfelder's A Priest's Diary and Jens Peter Jacobsen's Niels Lyhne.