The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

by Rainer Maria Rilke, Burton Pike (Translator)

Overview

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.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781564787064
Publisher:	Dalkey Archive Press
Publication date:	10/01/2008
Series:	German and Austrian Literature
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	236
File size:	407 KB

About the Author

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is considered one of the greatest poets who ever wrote in the German language. His most famous works are Sonnets to Orpheus, The Duino Elegies, Letters to a Young Poet, and The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.

His collected work is comprised of hundreds of other poems, essays, plays, and stories.

Burton Pike is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and
German at CUNY. He co-translated Musil’s The Man without
Qualities and Rilke’s novel The
Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.
His translations have appeared in numerous periodicals.

Editorial Reviews

"Translator Burton Pike captures the edgy, haunting beauty of this little-known masterpiece."-- O Magazine

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