{"product_id":"notebooks-of-malte-laurids-brigge-9781324066088","title":"Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge","description":"\u003cp\u003eA groundbreaking masterpiece of early European modernism originally published in 1910, \u003cem\u003eThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge\u003c\/em\u003e unspools the vivid reflections of the titular young Danish nobleman and poet. From his Paris garret, Brigge records his encounters with the city and its outcasts, muses on his family history, and lays bare his earliest experiences of fear, tenderness, and desolation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a poet's feel for language and a keen instinct for storytelling, Rainer Maria Rilke forges a dazzlingly fractured coming-of-age narrative, kaleidoscopic in its alternation of vivid present encounters and equally alive memories of childhood. Strikingly contemporary, \u003cem\u003eThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge\u003c\/em\u003e reveals a writer metabolizing his own experiences to yield still-essential questions about fiction and reality, empathy and psychosis, and--above all--life, love, and death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a fascinating introduction, award-winning translator Edward Snow explores the overlaps between Rilke's experiences and those of his protagonist, and shows with granular attention the novel's capacity for nuance and sympathy. Snow's exquisite translation captures as never before the astonishing cadences and musical clarity of the poet's prose. It reveals \u003cem\u003eThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge\u003c\/em\u003e as an urgent contemporary achievement, more than one hundred years after it was written.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSnow, Edward:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eEdward Snow\u003c\/strong\u003e has received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for his Rilke translations. A professor at Rice University, he lives in Houston, Texas.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRilke, Rainer Maria:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eRainer Maria Rilke\u003c\/strong\u003e (1875-1926), the author of \u003cem\u003eSonnets to Orpheus, Duino Elegies\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eLetters to a Young Poet\u003c\/em\u003e, was one of the greatest poets of the German language.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50619914715410,"sku":"9781324066088","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b3131d43-2a9d-4e95-a5c5-46a9247b62d8.jpg?v=1754897688","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/notebooks-of-malte-laurids-brigge-9781324066088","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}