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    The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke

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    In five pages this paper considers Georg Trakl's poem 'Grodek' and Rainer Maria Rilke's The Notebooks of Malte Laaruids Brigge within the context of Rilke's statment that the 'degeneration of things leads to the martyrdom of the individual.'

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    The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910) Written by B. Bryan Babcock for the Paperstore, Inc., December 2000  Introduction Author Rainer Maria Rile claims that the "degeneration of things leads to the martyrdom of the individual." This statement will be examined in the context of his  prose worth The Notebooks of Malte Laaruids Brigge (1910), and the poem Grodek by Georg Trakl. Rainer Maria Rilke "As the spider spins its threads, every subject spins his relations  to certain characteristics of the things around him, and weaves them in a firm web which carves his existence" (A Stroll). Rilke liked to use the natural world to  explain those things which are invisible to the eye - thoughts, beliefs and ideas. From the image of the spider we have the idea, that we all create our  own reality. Not only to we create that sense of what is real to us, we expand and build upon it, until it is a solid construct. The  Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge It has been said that this prose work can best be understood by working from Rilkes premise that "the degeneration of things leads to the  martyrdom of the individual." The story is in the form of random entries made by a Danish expatriate, Malte Laurids Brigge, living in Paris. Through his writing he tries  to deal with his unusual childhood, and the trials that he faces with little income in the city. Brigge sees himself as a "prodigal" son type character, not in  relationship to a physical family, but in relationship to the unity of man or the unity of the human species. Yet Brigge "did not even want the dogs with 

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