The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

Synopsis

'an indescribable, aching, futile longing for myself'the young danish aristocrat malte laurids brigge has been left rootless by the early death of his parents. Now living in paris, malte begins to record his life in a series of loosely connected notes, diary entries, prose poems, parables and stories, ostensibly collected by a fictional editor to form the notebooks.