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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
By Cathleen Medwick
O, The Oprah Magazine  |  From the December 2008 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
By Rainer Maria Rilke
235 pages; Dalkey Archive Press

You could think of it as a mosaic of the human psyche, a book of intricate, intimate fragments. Published in 1910, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, by the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, is a stylistically innovative novel about a young writer's urgent need to see and feel the world around him, to make reality congruent with art. Translator Burton Pike captures the edgy, haunting beauty of this little-known masterpiece.

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