Manfred Engel Books

Exploring the dual nature of dreams, this book delves into their enigmatic qualities and the ways they can be interpreted as both messages to decipher and sources of entertainment. It examines factual dream reports alongside fictional portrayals across literature, film, music, and painting, drawing examples from a diverse array of cultures and historical contexts. The work features insights from renowned authors and artists, highlighting the complex relationship between dreams and our understanding of reality throughout history.

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is Rilke’s major prose work and was one of the earliest publications to introduce him to American readers. The very wide audience which Rilke’s work commands today will welcome the reissue in paperback of this extremely perceptive translation of the Notebooks by M. D. Herter Norton. A masterly translation of one of the first great modernist novels by one of the German language's greatest poets, in which a young man named Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris while his belongings rot in storage. Every person he sees seems to carry their death within them and with little but a library card to distinguish him from the city's untouchables, he thinks of the deaths, and ghosts, of his aristocratic family, of which he is the sole living descendant. Suffused with passages of lyrical brilliance, Rilke's semi-autobiographical novel is a moving and powerful coming-of-age story.

Herausgegeben von Ulrich Fülleborn und Manfred Engel, umfasst diese Sammlung drei Bände, die die Bandnummern 2009 bis 2011 enthalten.