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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge: A Novel Audiobook, by Rainer Maria Rilke Play Audiobook Sample

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge: A Novel Audiobook

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge: A Novel Audiobook, by Rainer Maria Rilke Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Simon Vance Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 5.00 hours at 1.5x Speed 3.75 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: November 2022 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9798212229364

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

9

Longest Chapter Length:

62:32 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

19:39 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

49:43 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

4

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Publisher Description

A stunning, revelatory new translation of the only novel from one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century.

A groundbreaking masterpiece of early European modernism, originally published in 1910, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge unspools the vivid reflections of the titular young poet and nobleman. From his Paris garret, Brigge records his encounters with the city and its people, muses on his family history, and lays bare an alternately exquisite and grotesque atmosphere of death. With a poet’s attention to language, Rainer Maria Rilke forges a dazzlingly visual coming-of-age narrative, kaleidoscopic in its approach to time and its portraits of Parisian life.

“Among the most trustworthy and exhilarating of Rilke’s contemporary translators” (Washington Post), Edward Snow zeroes in on the potent precision and astonishing, musical clarity of Rilke’s prose. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge confronts strikingly contemporary concerns of authorship, empathy, and the differences between appearances and reality, remaining an urgent achievement more than one hundred years after it was written.

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About Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) is considered one of the greatest poets who ever wrote in the German language. His most famous works are Sonnets to Orpheus, The Duino Elegies, Letters to a Young Poet, and The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. His collected works include hundreds of other poems, essays, plays, and stories.

About Simon Vance

Simon Vance (a.k.a. Robert Whitfield) is an award-winning actor and narrator. He has earned more than fifty Earphones Awards and won the prestigious Audie Award for best narration thirteen times. He was named Booklist’s very first Voice of Choice in 2008 and has been named an AudioFile Golden Voice as well as an AudioFile Best Voice of 2009. He has narrated more than eight hundred audiobooks over almost thirty years, beginning when he was a radio newsreader for the BBC in London. He is also an actor who has appeared on both stage and television.