The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, first published as The Journal of My Other Self, is a 1910 novel by Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke. The novel was the only work of prose of considerable length
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Sigbjørn Obstfelder
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Sigbjørn Obstfelder was a 19th-century Norwegian writer and poet.
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
…is written in an expressionistic style, with 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. John Linton (Norton, 1930; Hogarth Press, 1930). Originally published under the title The…
Obstfelder in 1900
Obstfelder lithograph by Edvard Munch.
Obstfelder's bust in the Frederiksberg Ældre Kirkegård
Cover of Obstfelder's Digte