person
Rainer Maria Rilke
Rilke
also: René Maria Rilke
The author (1875–1926), born in Prague. These two early novellas (1899) are set in the Prague of his youth and were written in Berlin-Schmargendorf.
Reading notes
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge §3 R.M.R.
Rilke's own initials: the book opens with a motto drawn from his letters of February 1912, dividing the reader who goes 'against the current' from the one dragged down by reading in parallel.
- Two Stories of Prague §3 Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), the author, born in Prague; these two early novellas, dated Schmargendorf 1899, gather the Prague of his youth.