pA groundbreaking masterpiece of early European modernism originally published in 1910, emThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids Briggeem 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.ppWith 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, emThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids Briggeem 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.ppIn a fascinating introduction, award-winning translator Edward Snow explores the overlaps between Rilke's experie