| The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge | |
| Title Orig: | Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge |
| Translator: | M. D. Herter Norton |
| Author: | Rainer Maria Rilke |
| Country: | Austria-Hungary |
| Language: | German |
| Genre: | Expressionist novel |
| Publisher: | Insel Verlag |
| Release Date: | 1910 |
| Pages: | Two volumes; 191 and 186 p. respectively (first edition hardcover) |
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, first published as The Journal of My Other Self,[1] is a 1910 novel by Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke. The novel was the only work of prose of considerable length that he wrote and published. It is semiautobiographical and is written in an expressionistic style, with existentialist themes. It was conceptualized and written whilst Rilke lived in Paris, mainly inspired by Sigbjørn Obstfelder's A Priest's Diary and Jens Peter Jacobsen's Niels Lyhne.