"Days in peacefully secluded rooms and mornings beside the sea, and the sea itself, seas, nights on journeys that swept by on high and flew past filled with stars..."

I initially wanted to read Letters to a Young Poet but couldn't find it in any bookstore. Therefore the obvious next best thing: Rilke's only novel.

What is this book about? Honestly, I don't know. This is one of those heavy books that rupture from the mind of someone who feels everything in their solitude and writes as their memory unfolds. It is no doubt that this was written by a poet. As much as we can't understand some parts of the text (and the notes in this this edition help immensely), we still relate to every single sentence because we've been there. Anyone who has ever kept notebooks, especially while living alone, understands how this book happened.

Rilke is an interesting character, his style is something new to my eyes, I have never read so many beautiful sentences in one book. This definitely opened up my eyes to a writer that needs to be taken more seriously.