The Notebooks of Laurids Brigge Author:Rainer Maria Rilke 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... more » translations, and aims to capture not only the beauty but also the strangeness, the spirit, of Rilke's German.« less