''The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge'', first published as ''Journal of My Other Self'',
[ M. D. Herter Norton (tr.). New York: W. W. Norton, 1949, 1992. Translator's Foreword, p. 8.] is a 1910 novel by Austrian poet
Rainer Maria Rilke. The novel was the only work of prose of its length that he wrote and published. It is semiautobiographical and is written in an
expressionistic style, dealing with themes of alienation, unfamiliarity, death by illness, longing, childhood memories and the
Parable of the Prodigal Son. It was conceptualized and written whilst Rilke lived in Paris, mainly inspired by
Sigbjørn Obstfelder's ''A Priest's Diary'' and
Jens Peter Jacobsen
Jens Peter Jacobsen (7 April 1847 – 30 April 1885) was a Danish novelist, poet, and scientist, in Denmark often just written as "J. P. Jacobsen". He began the naturalist movement in Danish literature and was a part of the Modern B ...
's ''
Niels Lyhne''.
English translations
* John Linton (Norton, 1930; Hogarth Press, 1930). Originally published under the title ''The Journal of My Other Self''.
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Mary D. Herter Norton (Norton, 1949)
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Stephen Mitchell (Random House, 1982)
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Burton Pike (Dalkey Archive, 2008)
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Michael Hulse
Michael Hulse (born 1955) is an English poet, translator and critic, notable especially for his translations of German novels by W. G. Sebald, Herta Müller, and Elfriede Jelinek.
Life and works
Hulse was educated locally in Stoke-on-Trent u ...
(Penguin, 2009)
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Robert Vilain (Oxford, 2016)
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Edward Snow (Norton, 2022)
See also
*
''Le Mondes 100 Books of the Century
References
External links
English translation of ''Notebooks'' Original text at zeno.org
1910 German-language novels
Autobiographical novels
Austro-Hungarian culture
German-language novels
Works by Rainer Maria Rilke
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