The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Rainer Maria Rilke, Burton Pike
Paperback
(Dalkey Archive Press, Oct. 20, 2008)
First published in Paris 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.