Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge also known as The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge in English is Rainer Maria Rilke's only novel which influenced greatly many modern philosophers of existentialism and phenomenology. It was written whilst Rilke lived in Paris. The novel is semi-autobiographical, and is written in an expressionistic style. This is book is the original German language text of The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.