Notebooks of Malte Laurids Briggs (Critical) House & Home At seventeen

At seventeen

from Agnes Martin to Maggie Nelson to Robin Coste Lewis

claiming he's finally ready to earn their forgiveness-in whatever way Diego demands of him

while secretly interviewing Peter about growing up queer in the South and coming-of-age dating wise in adulthood

Notebooks of Malte Laurids Briggs (Critical) House & Home At seventeenA masterly new translation of one of the first great modernist novels In the only novel by one of the German language's greatest poets, 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 with 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