''The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge'', first published as ''Journal of My Other Self'', M. D. Herter Norton (tr.). New York: W. W. Norton, 1949, 1992. Translator's Foreword, p. 8. is a 1910 novel by Austrian poet

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. The novel was the only work of prose of its length that he wrote and published. It is semiautobiographical and is written in an

expressionistic Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad ...

style, dealing with themes of alienation, unfamiliarity, death by illness, longing, childhood memories and the Parable of the Prodigal Son. It was conceptualized and written whilst Rilke lived in Paris, mainly inspired by

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's ''A Priest's Diary'' and

Jens Peter Jacobsen Jens Peter Jacobsen (7 April 1847 – 30 April 1885) was a Danish novelist, poet, and scientist, in Denmark often just written as "J. P. Jacobsen". He began the naturalist movement in Danish literature and was a part of the Modern Bre ...

's ''

Niels Lyhne ''Niels Lyhne'' is an 1880 novel written by the Danish author Jens Peter Jacobsen. General description A naturalistic work, ''Niels Lyhne'' is considered to be part of the Modern Breakthrough, a style of Realism native to Scandinavia; however, ...

''.

English translations

* John Linton (Norton, 1930; Hogarth Press, 1930). Originally published under the title ''The Journal of My Other Self''. *

Mary D. Herter Norton Margaret Dows Herter Norton Crena de longh (née Herter; 1894–1985), known as Mary D. Herter Norton when she co-founded W. W. Norton & Company with her first husband, William Warder Norton, was an American publisher, violinist, and translator. S ...

(Norton, 1949) * Stephen Mitchell (Random House, 1982) *

Burton Pike Burton Pike (June 12, 1930 - December 22, 2022)''Contemporary Authors Online'' (accessed March 26, 2016). was a translator of Robert Musil, as well as a distinguished professor emeritus of comparative literature and Germanic languages and literatur ...

(Dalkey Archive, 2008) *

Michael Hulse Michael Hulse (born 1955) is an English poet, translator and critic, notable especially for his translations of German novels by W. G. Sebald, Herta Müller, and Elfriede Jelinek. Life and works Hulse was educated locally in Stoke-on-Trent unt ...

(Penguin, 2009) *

Robert Vilain Robert Vilain is a British literary scholar. He has been Fellow and Senior Tutor of St Hugh's College, Oxford, since September 2021. Previously he was Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Bristol, where he still hol ...

(Oxford, 2016) *

Edward Snow Edward A. Snow is an American poet and translator. Life He graduated from Rice University, University of California, Riverside, and State University of New York at Buffalo, in 1969 with a Ph.D. He is a professor of English at Rice University, a ...

(Norton, 2022)

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English translation of ''Notebooks''

Original text at zeno.org
1910 German-language novels Autobiographical novels Austro-Hungarian culture German-language novels Works by Rainer Maria Rilke {{1910s-autobio-novel-stub

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