Trina's review
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Trina's review
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke
Trina's review
rating:
bookshelves:
fiction
I've categorized this under fiction, but I'm not sure that's an entirely accurate designation. But whatevs.
Of Note:
The False Dmitry (also treated in Tsvetaeva's poem "Marina")
Gaspara Stampa (doesn't another poet refer to her, or is it just Rilke?)
I found that I was most interested in the telling of the familial ghost stories and least interested in the meditative, declamatory passages. The historical references were fun (at least the ones I had time to Google).
Also worth noting are the many shifts in perspective; from first person to second person (reflexive) to second person (nonreflexive) to third person and everywhere in between. At times intimate and very much internal to expansive and public, the book held my interest through its narrative variety.
Of Note:
The False Dmitry (also treated in Tsvetaeva's poem "Marina")
Gaspara Stampa (doesn't another poet refer to her, or is it just Rilke?)
I found that I was most interested in the telling of the familial ghost stories and least interested in the meditative, declamatory passages. The historical references were fun (at least the ones I had time to Google).
Also worth noting are the many shifts in perspective; from first person to second person (reflexive) to second person (nonreflexive) to third person and everywhere in between. At times intimate and very much internal to expansive and public, the book held my interest through its narrative variety.
