Rainer Maria Rilke’s reflections on the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

See THE NOTEBOOKS OF MALTE LAURIDS BRIGGE (Die Auf zeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge, translated into English by William Needham) at the Internet Archive

-Other translations listed by Joseph Rauch in  A Review of ‘The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge’

-See also for essays on Rilke and the Paris reading room: 

M. Allen Cunningham, Ghost Coda: A Rilke Pilgrimage, Nov. 26, 2014, The Tin House Blog.

Stefano Giani, Poets, foreigners, poverty… and the library: a quote for 2017, Blog Nostrum, Jan. 2, 2017, University of Amsterdam, Library, Romance Languages and Cultures blog.