The Malte Laurids Brigge

After the death of his parents, the impoverished Danish nobleman Malte Laurids Brigge arrives in Paris around 1900 to make a living as a poet. However, the city of his dreams turns out to be a place of misery and ugliness. Overwhelmed by the smell of poverty, the 28-year-old describes his impressions in diary entries filled with intensity and poetry. Rilke's work on fate and identity, art and society is considered the first major novel of literary modernism. Unabridged reading by Klaus Nägelen, the fragmentary notes of Malte come together to form an impressive testimony of an identity crisis at the turn of the century. Unabridged reading with Klaus Nägelen, 1 mp3-CD, approx. 7 hours 40 minutes.