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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge Rainer Maria Rilke M D Herter Norton Books

Rilke's poems are great. This book is sporadic. Some of the entries will really stun you, and others are tedious. The plot is skeletal, more a scaffold than a structure, but the real reason to read this book is because Rilke is brilliant, and you will find so very many good books that act like books in your life, but very few or none like this. It is one of those wonderful little unique experiences in the world. Sometimes I think there is nothing so valuable in this over-crowded world as weirdness, because there is far too much normalcy, and the more millions of normal people who bump into each other, the more loudly they start complaining about how the little guy, the average citizen is being ignored, squeezed, blah blah blah. Stand out already. Get an eccentricity. For a good jumping off point, start here.


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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge Rainer Maria Rilke M D Herter Norton Books Reviews

A book that takes you on a journey to learn more about the mind, perception of, and what it means to be an artist.
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Notes by a genius well before he became a genius
This book is a dense jungle of metaphor, symbol and history. First time readers will be taken aback by the haunting beauty of the descriptions and situations, but long time readers get so much more from it. I can't really put that into words, but this is a book I will revisit every year or two for the rest of my life.
You have to love Rilke to begin with...which I do. The connection with, the description of, modern day malaise, totally nails it.
The great modernist poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote only one "novel" in his lifetime The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. He termed it a novel; I am not so sure. The book is a compilation of narrative, philosophical asides, sketches for future poems, and detailed descriptions of artwork. It is clear that the writer is a poet, for much of the content does not make sense except in an irrational way. I was struck, for example, at the beginning of the novel by the narrator's description of people's faces. Everyone has four or five faces they wear throughout their lives. like masks. Some wear out quickly, the seams tearing at the edges. Some never use any face but one. Once, while walking through the streets of Paris, the narrator Malte hears a woman crying down a alley. When he investigates, the woman pulls her face out of her hands so quickly that she is left palming it in a puddle of tears, her head an open chasm.

Malte is a young aristocrat from Denmark without money who has moved to Paris to pursue his poetic vocation. The books flashes back and forth between his childhood memories and his observations of the people in France. In the second half of the book he hints at a love interest he left behind, an older woman who may be a relation.

The work jumps around from scene to scene randomly, and I had trouble making any sense of it. That is until the end, when Malte examines the New Testament story of the Prodigal Son. He imagines this character, not as the selfish libertine popularly construed, but as a sensitive young favorite of everyone in his household. He flees his family and gives away everything he owns to his "friends" simply because he no longer wishes to be loved. To be loved is to be controlled, and he wants freedom. He will love without reciprocation, because to love is to live. The Prodigal Son, then, is a symbol of Malte and his antipathy to attachment to anyone. As every selection in the book shows, he prefers to sit in the corner with his notebook making observations about those around him or delving into his reminiscences from home, never getting up and actually entering into the fray of life.
Those who need a clear plot and a reliable narrator beware. This book is non-linear and reads more like poetry than a traditional novel. But I love literature which challenges me to look at the world differently. The Notebooks certainly does that.

I have been a long fan of the translations of Stephen Mitchell. I was first drawn to this particular book by the excerpts in Ahead of All Parting The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke (Modern Library) (English & German Edition) (English and German Edition) This translation is first-rate.
This is an important book in literary history. It describes in "ultra realism" the rise of mass culture, the loss of individualism and personal value in 20th century Europe. It's told through the eyes of a failed artist
and destitute nobleman arriving in Paris for treatment of some undisclosed mental illness. It contrasts with Kafka's surrealism, dealing with (basically) the same themes. So it's interesting and worth reading from those points alone. It's just that the language and plot are rather hyper emotional making the read a tough slog. But I'd still recommend the book for its pivotal position in literature and history.
Rilke's poems are great. This book is sporadic. Some of the entries will really stun you, and others are tedious. The plot is skeletal, more a scaffold than a structure, but the real reason to read this book is because Rilke is brilliant, and you will find so very many good books that act like books in your life, but very few or none like this. It is one of those wonderful little unique experiences in the world. Sometimes I think there is nothing so valuable in this over-crowded world as weirdness, because there is far too much normalcy, and the more millions of normal people who bump into each other, the more loudly they start complaining about how the little guy, the average citizen is being ignored, squeezed, blah blah blah. Stand out already. Get an eccentricity. For a good jumping off point, start here.