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jeanrimbaud 's review for:
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
by Rainer Maria Rilke, M.D. Herter Norton
3.5/5
Read this for the first time when I was in high school and had extremely mixed feelings about it. Back then I figured I was either too young for Rilke or needed to get to know his work better (most definitely both).
Five years later, after I've finally read some of his poetry, I decided to give this another chance and alas, I'm still kind of struggling forming my opinion on this. The writing is incredible and it reminds me a lot of works such as Hesse's Steppenwolf or Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet, which are both one of my favourite works of literature of all time, yet there were parts that downright bored me and seemed completely irrelevant to me. I shall conclude (once again) that the fault lies in me and who knows, maybe in another five years I'll pick it up again and finally get what Rilke is about.
Read this for the first time when I was in high school and had extremely mixed feelings about it. Back then I figured I was either too young for Rilke or needed to get to know his work better (most definitely both).
Five years later, after I've finally read some of his poetry, I decided to give this another chance and alas, I'm still kind of struggling forming my opinion on this. The writing is incredible and it reminds me a lot of works such as Hesse's Steppenwolf or Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet, which are both one of my favourite works of literature of all time, yet there were parts that downright bored me and seemed completely irrelevant to me. I shall conclude (once again) that the fault lies in me and who knows, maybe in another five years I'll pick it up again and finally get what Rilke is about.