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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1910
- Originally in
- Originally in German
- Pages
- Pages 220
A young, poor poet alone in Paris fills a notebook with everything that frightens him, dying strangers, his own vanished childhood, the terror of being unseen, until the fragments themselves become the only shape his life will hold.
People come here, then, to live? I should rather have thought that they came here to die.
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