The concept of death as described in The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge In Rainer Maria Rilke’s The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, Malte is a young artist who seems to be lost in his own thoughts on life and a multitude of other abstract notions. Throughout this work, which is very reluctantly classified as a novel, the narrator ponders many different areas and concepts about life in the city, with some references to life on the countryside. Furthermore, the speaker presents death in a very
addresses the challenges faced by the artist in modernity than Rainer Maria Rilke’s 1910 classic, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Rilke accomplishes this through an embedded discourse with the work of Charles Baudelaire and Georg Simmel. In particular, Rilke draws heavily from Baudelaire’s seminal work of criticism, “The Painter of Modern Life,” in formulating Malte’s goal in writing his Notebooks: to transfigure the present by rendering meaning onto the world. Yet, Rilke’s modernity appears
History of Prague Although historians aren't certain exactly when Prague was founded, the city as we know it today is speculated to have begun in the 8th century AD, founded by the Czech dutchess Libusa and her husband, Premysl. By 800 AD, construction of a main fort around Prague had been completed, and by 885, the first stones of Prague castle were laid down. This area later became the seat of Czech government, hosting dukes and kings alike. The city was also an important trade center, with merchants