Heather's review
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Heather's review
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke
Heather's review
rating:
I much prefer Rilke's letters and memoirs to his work of fiction, though Notebooks reads just like an autobiography. It isn't as coherent as his memoirs, nor as insightful and honest as his letters, however. I would recommend setting aside one evening to read this book in one sitting, because once you put it down I found it very difficult to go back to it. You never know where the story will take you: one minute you're examining an old blind man with a wheelbarrow, then you're contemplating reality/perception. It was a bit too scattered for me in that sense, but otherwise classic Rilke and promotion of the self. Rock on Rainer!
