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finnx2 's review for:
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
by Rainer Maria Rilke
3.5/5
Death, Nostalgia, Bildungsroman
“Abelone might as well not have heard me. There she sat in her bright dress, as if the darkness were deepening everywhere within her, just as it was in her eyes.
‘Give it to me,’ she said suddenly, as if in anger, and, taking the book out of my hand, she opened it at the page she wanted.”
The obscurity and dreamlike quality of the writing read beautifully, although also left me lost, only understanding minute glimpses from the notebooks.
Pros:
-- poetic prose and artistic aesthetic
-- Malte and Abelone's banter
Cons:
-- disconnect between the ramblings and some structure or lack of
-- extremely private, lack of sensible metaphors
Death, Nostalgia, Bildungsroman
“Abelone might as well not have heard me. There she sat in her bright dress, as if the darkness were deepening everywhere within her, just as it was in her eyes.
‘Give it to me,’ she said suddenly, as if in anger, and, taking the book out of my hand, she opened it at the page she wanted.”
The obscurity and dreamlike quality of the writing read beautifully, although also left me lost, only understanding minute glimpses from the notebooks.
Pros:
-- poetic prose and artistic aesthetic
-- Malte and Abelone's banter
Cons:
-- disconnect between the ramblings and some structure or lack of
-- extremely private, lack of sensible metaphors