{"product_id":"the-notebooks-of-malte-laurids-briggs-isbn-9780141182216","title":"The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Briggs","description":"\u003cb\u003eA masterly new translation of one of the first great modernist novels \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the only novel by one of the German language's greatest poets, a young man named Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris while his belongings rot in storage. Every person he sees seems to carry their death with them, and with little but a library card to distinguish him from the city's untouchables, he thinks of the deaths, and ghosts, of his aristocratic family, of which he is the sole living descendant. Suffused with passages of lyrical brilliance, Rilke's semi-autobiographical novel is a moving and powerful coming-of-age story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003cb\u003eRainer Maria Rilke\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Prague in 1875 and died in Valmont, Montreux, in 1926. Throughout his life he travelled restlessly around Europe, meeting Tolstoy in Russia (1900), working as ‘secretary’ to Rodin in Paris (1905–6), enjoying some aristocratic hospitality (especially at Castle Duino, near Trieste, as guest of Marie von Thurn und Taxis, between 1910 and 1914), working as a clerk in Austria during the war, but finally settling at the Château de Muzot, Valais, after 1922.\u003cp\u003eThe turning-points in his career are the \u003ci\u003eNeue Gedichte\u003c\/i\u003e (\"New Poems\") of 1907–8, together with the journal-novel of the same period, \u003ci\u003eDie Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge\u003c\/i\u003e (1910); and \u003ci\u003eDuineser Elegeien\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDie Soneete an Orpheus\u003c\/i\u003e of 1922. His final interest was Paul Valéry whose poems, \u003ci\u003eCharmes\u003c\/i\u003e, he translated in 1925 and imitated in his own \u003ci\u003ePoèmes français\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Hulse\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Stoke-on-Trent in 1955 and studied at the University of St Andrews. Since 1977 he has taught at the Universities of Erlangen, Eichstätt and Cologne in West Germany, and has spent periods working as a freelance writer. His most recent translations include \u003ci\u003ePrison Journal\u003c\/i\u003e by Luise Rinser (Penguin 1988) and \u003ci\u003eParis Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e by Ernst Jünger. He has also published several collections of poems: \u003ci\u003eMonochrome Blood\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDole Queue\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKnowing and Forgetting\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePropaganda\u003c\/i\u003e and has won numerous awards.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305180680421,"sku":"NP9780141182216","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780141182216.jpg?v=1767740747","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-notebooks-of-malte-laurids-briggs-isbn-9780141182216","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}