The "imprisoned illness:" motor tic disorder in Rainer Maria Rilke's Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.

ABSTRACT

Rainer Maria Rilke's novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge contains a reference of interest for the catalog of literary portrayals of tiqueurs. In this article, we report his description of a Parisian character displaying multiple motor tic symptoms, along with a brief commentary.