Abstract
stoph Rilke remained, as is well known, a very problematic one. The passage quoted above from Rilke's letter to Alois Schreier is one of his numerous statements on the early prosepoem, the aesthetic qualities of which Rilke never ceased to question and criticize. Though Rilke himself cannot always be considered the keenest critic of his early writings, this ambivalent appreciation of Cornet deserves special interpretive attention. The majority of critics read the book as the tale of a young, heroic soldier, the account of the brave Cornet's short life:
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