The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

1910 novel by Rainer Maria Rilke

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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Penguin Classics edition
Author	Rainer Maria Rilke
Original title	Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge
Translator	M. D. Herter Norton
Country	Austria-Hungary
Language	German
Genre	Expressionist novel
Publisher	Insel Verlag
Publication date	1910
Pages	Two volumes; 191 and 186 p. respectively (first edition hardcover)

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, first published as The Journal of My Other Self,^[1] is a 1910 novel by Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke. The novel was the only work of prose of considerable length that he wrote and published. It is semiautobiographical and is written in an expressionistic style, with existentialist themes. It was conceptualized and written whilst Rilke lived in Paris, mainly inspired by Sigbjørn Obstfelder's A Priest's Diary and Jens Peter Jacobsen's Niels Lyhne.

English translations

John Linton (Norton, 1930; Hogarth Press, 1930). Originally published under the title The Journal of My Other Self.
Mary D. Herter Norton (Norton, 1949)
Stephen Mitchell (Random House, 1982)
Burton Pike (Dalkey Archive, 2008)
Michael Hulse (Penguin, 2009)
Robert Vilain (Oxford, 2016)
Edward Snow (Norton, 2022)

References

^ M. D. Herter Norton (tr.). New York: W. W. Norton, 1949, 1992. Translator's Foreword, p. 8.
^ Tesio, Giovanni (2 April 1998). "Raffaele Baldini: La felicità di vivere in un mondo strambo" [Raffaele Baldini: The happiness of living in a strange world]. La Stampa (in Italian). p. 5. Retrieved 16 February 2024.