Notebooks of Malte Laurids BriggeRainer Maria Rilke, Robert Vilain
Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
by Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Vilain
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on “Ask HN: Good books?” ↗…Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. Otherwise, if anyone is looking for other recommendations for summer reading: - Sculpting in Time by Andrei Tarkovsky - When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin D. Yalom - The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke
on “Books worth reading this summer” ↗…exactly what he did in a cabin in Montana. This specific style of anti-modernity (industrialization leads to alienation) is at least as old as Rilke[1], who wrote about it extensively in his 1910 book, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge[2], and I get a chuckle thinking to myself that this is the most viable path to a truly "post-modern" world devoid of modernity. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke [2] https://archive.org/stream/TheNotebooksOfMalteLauridsBrigge/...
on “Ted Kaczynski's Manifesto [pdf]” ↗