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First published in Paris in 1910, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is one of the first great modernist novels, by one of the most important German poets of the twentieth century, in which Rilke's poet-aspirant Brigge explores poetic individuality and reflects on his experience of time as death approaches. This new translation by Burton Pike is a reaction to overly-stylised previous attempts, and aims to capture the beauty, strangeness and spirit of Rilke's German.
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"There have been books that have struck me like lightning and left me riven, permanently scarred, perhaps burned-out but picturesque; and there have been those that created complete countries with their citizens, their cows, their climate, where I could choose to live for long periods while enduring, defying, enjoying their scenery and seasons; but there have been one or two I came to love with a profounder and more enduring passion, not just because, somehow, they seemed to speak to the most intimate 'me' I knew but also because they emobodied what I held to be humanly highest, and were therefore made of words which revealed a powerful desire moving with the rhythmic grace of Blake's Tyger; an awareness that was pitilessly unsentimental, yet receptive as a sponge; feelings that were free and undeformed and unashamed; thought that looked at all its conclusions and didn't blink; as well as an imagination that could dance on the heads of all those angels dancing on that pin. I thought that [Rilke's] Notebooks were full of writing that met that tall order." -- William H. Gass
"Translator Burton Pike captures the edgy, haunting beauty of this little-known masterpiece."--"O Magazine"
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Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) is considered one of the most important German poets of the twentieth century. He is best known for his two famous verse sequences, Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies, both of which were published in 1923. His collected work is comprised of hundreds of other poems, essays, plays, and stories.
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- PublisherColumbia University Press
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1564784975
- ISBN 13 9781564784971
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages236
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