Written in the form of episodic reminiscences by the title character, for ten points, identify this novel by Rainer Maria Rilke.
One episode in this work takes place in the Bibliotheque National, where the narrator sits reading an unspecified poet and wonders what the beggars who "know that I am really one of themselves," want with him. The narrator admits that at 28, he has written only a bad study of Carpaccio and a drama titled "Marriage," and in another episode the title character imagines that people have several faces which they wear throughout their lives. Interspersed throughout this work are recollections of "Maman," and the dead Ingeborg, as well as of Maman's sister Abelone, and one scene in this novel recalls the death of the chamberlain Christoph Detlev at Ulsgaard. References abound in this work to various women poets, including Mariana Alcoforado and Gaspara Stampa, as well as to the author's other works like the Sonnets to Orpheus. Written in the form of episodic reminiscences by the title character, for ten points, identify this novel by Rainer Maria Rilke.
One episode in this work takes place in the Bibliotheque National, where the narrator sits reading an unspecified poet and wonders what the beggars who "know that I am really one of themselves," want with him.
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge or Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge