Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge (Ein Klassiker der deutschen Literatur) (Paperback)

from pauliensijbers

Rilke's only novel. The ride Malte offered me nearly blew me away.

from suniru

The short introduction at the beginning of my copy was key in approaching this work. The first of two necessary elements was that Rilke didn't intend to tell a story. What is presented is what one might expect to find if one randomly opened Mainer Maria Rilke's desk. The second element was that R...

from stillatim

A strange class of books: those that I conclude with the thought that I haven't understood even the first thing about them, and I can't wait to re-read. Usually this happens with books that have astonished me in the first few pages, which was not the case with Brigge. But by the end I was reeling...

from madepercy

This work is often regarded as the first 'modernist' novel. I find it hard to place. As far as genre is concerned, it is not quite Finnegan's Wake, that Rilke was a poet does not make this like a Bukowski novel, nor is it a work of non-fiction in the vein of Rabindranath Tagore. I enjoyed the wor...

from pennwriter

When this novel is brilliant, it blazes like a star. But it is hard going. Rilke is a poet and he wrote a poetic novel, and these make for difficult reading because of their intensity.