Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge By Rainer Maria Rilke Translated by Burton Pike Dalkey Archive Press £9.99 198 ...

James Ensor’s L’Intrigue, 1890. (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) “Paris is a difficult place,” Rainer Maria Rilke wrote to a friend on New Year’s Eve, 1902. “And the beautiful things here and there do ...

Rilke's diary-like text without a plot or chronology ended up becoming a trailblazer for contemporary storytelling. The acclaimed poet's only novel heralded an identity crisis in literature. Only can ...

Archival theory was and is a major topic, but the question of how collections and text interpretation can be linked has rarely been asked. Rilke's "Malte Laurids Brigge" allows the question to be ...

Have you ever felt like you were born into the wrong century? Rainer Maria Rilke, a poet, was overwhelmed by the pace of modern life even 100 years ago. He moved to Paris and wrote 'The Notebooks of ...

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In the Halloween spirit, FM had professors share spooky stories of their choice. History professor Peter Gordon reads an excerpt from "The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge" by German lyric poet ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Undying by Todd Gitlin (Counterpoint) Ever since the German poet Rilke published “The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge,” writers with little appetite for ...

While his old furniture rots in storage, Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris, with little but a library reader's card to distinguish him from the city's untouchables. Every person he ...