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The lay of the love and death of cornet christopher rilke, rainer maria rilke, 1948, poetry, 81 pages. Full text of the notebooks of malte laurids brigge see other formats. Metaphysical hunger and distaste in the notebooks of malte. Set in paris, partly a ghost story, partly an autobiography, and partly the diary. The main characters of this poetry, classics story are. The notebooks of malte laurids brigge is rilkes major prose work and was one of the earliest publications to introduce him to american readers. Download pdf the notebooks of malte laurids brigge book full free. A radical departure from literary realism, it is an archetypal confrontation with the modern. It was written whilst rilke lived in paris, and was published in 1910. May 01, 2000 free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. The notebooks of malte laurids brigge german literature.
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