The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge By Rainer Maria Rilke, Michael Hulse (Translator)

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge By Rainer Maria Rilke, Michael Hulse (Translator)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 sees seems to carry their death with them, and he thinks of the deaths, and ghosts, of his aristocratic family, of which only he remains. The only novel by one of the greatest writers of poetry in German, the semi autobiographical Notebooks is an uneasy,

unique situation the understanding of which recedes from my sight into the distance

It tells the story of a middle-class Muslim joint family over a span of fifty years

but in so doing loses his grip on the children he loves

with her brother Swaraj Man and their father Kiran Man Chitraker

But with so much chaos around them

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desperate fight against the forces of the Dark

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