Malte's Notes
by Rilke
About This Novel
"Notes of Malte", full name "Notes of Malte Lauritz Brig", is the only novel by the great German poet Rilke. It was written in 1904 and first published in 1910. This is a diary novel. The "I" Malte in the diary was born in Denmark. He arrived in Paris alone in the autumn of the year when he was 28 years old, and settled in a small hotel on Tourier Road in the Latin Quarter. He spent the autumn and winter of that year in poverty and ushered in the spring of the following year. During his stay in Paris, he wrote notes after notes in a hotel room with deserted walls, recording the profound changes in his heart and his reborn growth. The novel consists of 71 such fragments, including several fictitious editor's notes by Rilke. This novel has been hailed as "the first truly modern novel in the German-speaking world."
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