Two Stories Of Prague
(Rainer Maria Rilke)
Rilke's Two Stories of Prague both consist of a socio-political comment on the climate following the finalisation of the Chech-German tension, the Cold Polarisation in Prague on 1848. That was more or less the end of the mid-19th century term 'Bohemism', which meant the mutual recognition and respect of the two nations co-existing in the Bohemian grounds.
1893 was the year that the fictionalised events of the two stories took place in Prague. Several anti-Austrian Chechs were arrested and went through trial accused of conspiracy. they had connections with Omladina the Check Youth organisation that fought for the liberation from Austrians and Germans. Police managed to trace Omladina, after one of its members the poet Rudolf Mrva was murdered by the leadership of the organisation under the suspicion of him being a spy for the Austrian police. in the version of Rilke, Rudolf mrva becomes King Bohush. The suspected murderer Professor Cizek becomes Student Rezek, the revolutionary who kills Bohush.
Both characters borrow from the typology of Dostoyevski heroes, particularly the 'Demons'. King Bohush is a man who Rilke draws with tenderness and compassion. Rezek scares him but his rhetoric fascinate him and the reason is not the content. As for Rezek everything about him represents raw evil.
The second story Simblings, is Rilke's autobiographical account using as one of the main characters the despotic German widow , modelled by his German mother. Rezek is the common link in both stories, representing the extremist Chech element as the widow von Meerhelm represents the extremist German element. The tone of both stories is elegiac and tender, often mournful for wounded mother Prague, in the same mode with Max Brod's political allegory 'The sold bride'.
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