The Notebook of Malte Laurids Brigge

Malte Laurids Brigge is an impoverished Danish poet and nobleman leading a solidary existence in Paris at the turn fo the century. In his notebook he records both his impressions of the city and his reminiscences of his childhood. Fascinated by squalor, he observes the misfits and outcasts of society - victims of fate like himself. He is obsessed by the idea of deathandhis own search for spiritual understanding.