The text includes an alternative version of the ending rarely found in translations of the work. The edition includes an authoritative introduction that helps to guide the reader through the narrative, draws biographical parallels and offers suggestions for interpretation.The story of Malte takes on representative status in an archetypal confrontation with the modern that is both intense and intriguingly unfocused. A new translation of Rilke's only novel, a canonical work of modernist prose that reflects the poet's own sense of alienation and transcends conventional narrative to achieve an intense exploration of.A radical departure from literary realism, it is an archetypal confrontation with the modern. A landmark in the development of the twentieth-century novel, the Notebooks is the story of a young Danish aristocrat, told in a series of notes that explore Malte's life in Paris, childhood memories and reflections in highly crafted poetic prose.
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