This is a great example and a good novel in a kind of mini-genre. This is a book about a young poet bumming around Paris. I didn’t even know this was a novel going in since Rainer Maria Rilke is most well-known as a poet and for being the author of “Letters to a Young Poet” in which the narrator answer queries from a friend of a friend trying to break into poetry. He more or less tells him it’s not worth it. But, this […]
I am learning to see.
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke