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Abstract: Both Rilke´s novel Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge and Kafka´s first narrative Beschreibung eines Kampfes are written between 1904 and 1910. They mark the point of a new beginning - which by Rilke represents the search of the "sachliches Sagen" - and for Kafka the first literary work; although it was not published as a whole by his author, Beschreibung eines Kampfes still already contains in nuce all themes and paradoxes of his future work. Both are written in the first person narrative, which should make the identification of the main character with the author easier. Actually they put in scene a motion or, for Kafka, "ein stehendes Marschieren" which goes through the temporal space of the reading and whose aim should be the place, where both the author and the fictional are to be found since the very beginning, the "Ort" of the writing. Both works bear strong selfreflecting features, as concerned with a writing on the edge, in which the borders of the text are also the borders of the "I". This aim of the writing cannot be reached by a linear movement, as it is placed at the turning point of the inversion ("Umkehrung"). This underlines the character of selfreflection and explains the impossibility of true accomplishment. Rilke´s and Kafka´s Anfängerschaft is also the starting point of a new beginning, which must be achieved again and again. |
