The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
A twenty-eight-year-old Dane, the last of his line and nearly out of money, keeps a notebook in a rented Paris room across from a demolished house whose wall still carries the outlines of the rooms that were in it. Between hospital smells, electric trams and a woman whose face comes away in her hands, he goes back to two childhood houses full of the family dead, and then to Charles the Bold, the popes at Avignon, and the women who loved better than they were loved. Rilke worked at it for six years and said afterwards that the man who wrote it had gone as far as one can go without dying.
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- alludes to ↑ The Flowers of Evil
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