The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - Rainer Maria Rilke

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

By Rainer Maria Rilke

  • Release Date: 2019-11-02
  • Genre: Classics

Description

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge was Rainer Maria Rilke's only novel, and is said to have greatly influenced such other writers as Jean-Paul Sartre. It was written whilst Rilke lived in Paris, and was published in 1910. The novel is semi-autobiographical, and is written in an expressionistic style. The work was inspired by Sigbjørn Obstfelder's work A Priest's Diary and Jens Peter Jacobsen's second novel Niels Lyhne of 1880, which traces the fate of an atheist in a merciless world.

The book was first issued in English under the title Journal of My Other Self.