While his old furniture rots in storage, Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap
room in Paris, with little but a library reader's card to distinguish him from
the city's untouchables. Every person he sees seems to carry their death with
them, and he thinks of the deaths, and ghosts, of his aristocratic family, of
which only he remains.
While his old furniture rots in storage, Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap
room in Paris, with little but a library reader's card to distinguish him from
the city's untouchables. Every person he sees seems to carry their death with
them, and he thinks of the deaths, and ghosts, of his aristocratic family, of
which only he remains.