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{{Short description|1910 novel by Rainer Maria Rilke}}
{{Expand German|topic=cult|Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge|date=June 2019}}
{{infobox book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books -->
| name         = The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
| title_orig   = Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge  
| translator   = [[Mary D. Herter Norton|M. D. Herter Norton]]
| image        = The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.jpg <!--Translation cover, temporary-->
| caption      = [[Penguin Classics]] edition
| author       = [[Rainer Maria Rilke]]
| cover_artist = 
| country      = Austria-Hungary
| language     = German
| genre        = [[Expressionism#Literature|Expressionist novel]]
| publisher    = [[Insel Verlag]]
| release_date = 1910
| pages        = Two volumes; 191 and 186 p. respectively (first edition hardcover)
| isbn         = <!--n/a-->
}}

'''''The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge''''', first published as ''The Journal of My Other Self'',<ref>[[Mary D. Herter Norton|M. D. Herter Norton]] (tr.). New York: W. W. Norton, 1949, 1992. Translator's Foreword, p. 8.</ref> is a 1910 novel by Austrian poet [[Rainer Maria Rilke]]. The novel was the only work of prose of considerable length that he wrote and published. It is semiautobiographical and is written in an [[Expressionism|expressionistic]] style, with [[Existentialism|existentialist]] themes. It was conceptualized and written while Rilke lived in Paris, mainly inspired by [[Sigbjørn Obstfelder]]'s ''A Priest's Diary'' and [[Jens Peter Jacobsen]]'s ''[[Niels Lyhne]]''.

== English translations ==

* John Linton (Norton, 1930; Hogarth Press, 1930). Originally published under the title ''The Journal of My Other Self''.
* [[Mary D. Herter Norton]] (Norton, 1949)
* [[Stephen Mitchell (translator)|Stephen Mitchell]] (Random House, 1982)
* [[Burton Pike]] (Dalkey Archive, 2008)
* [[Michael Hulse]] (Penguin, 2009)
* [[Robert Vilain]] (Oxford, 2016)
* [[Edward A. Snow|Edward Snow]] (Norton, 2022)

==See also==
*[[Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century|''Le Monde'''s 100 Books of the Century]]
*[[Raffaello Baldini]] – Romagnol poet who counted the novel among his influences<ref name=":30">{{Cite news |last=Tesio |first=Giovanni |date=2 April 1998 |title=Raffaele Baldini: La felicità di vivere in un mondo strambo |trans-title=Raffaele Baldini: The happiness of living in a strange world |url=http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,5/articleid,0541_04_1998_1102_0005_7224536/ |access-date=16 February 2024 |work=[[La Stampa]] |pages=5 |language=it-IT}}</ref>
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==References==
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== External links ==
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*[https://archive.org/details/TheNotebooksOfMalteLauridsBrigge English translation of ''Notebooks'']
{{Gutenberg|no=2188|name=Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge}} {{in lang|de}}
*[http://www.zeno.org/Literatur/M/Rilke,+Rainer+Maria/Roman/Die+Aufzeichnungen+des+Malte+Laurids+Brigge Original text at zeno.org] {{in lang|de}}

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