The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

“A sick Dane comes to Paris to contemplate his own death. Among the trams and faceless townspeople who have masks instead of faces (and not just one, but dozens of them), Gothic castles and medieval tapestries depicting the Lady and the Unicorn, Malte Brygge comes across a stranger, or his double, or the Lord incarnate - who knows. Whether this is enlightenment and insight, or oblivion - one can hardly understand in this whirlwind of childhood memories, the history of the Brygge family, mystical visions and visits to a hospital for epileptics.