The Figure of Jeremiah in the Work of Stefan Zweig and Rainer Maria Rilke
The prophet and the prophetic feature prominently in Rainer Maria Rilke’s Neue Gedichte (1907) and in Stefan Zweig’s one and only pacifist drama Jeremias (1917). This chapter examines the poetic and rhetorical significance of their renderings of the Jeremiah myth through in-depth textual and structural analysis. It shows the critical attitude towards the prophetic as expressed in Rilke’s poem “Jeremia” challenging the divine voice, which had turned the prophet into its mere mouthpiece. Furthermore, it discusses the interrelation between Rilke’s poem and Zweig’s drama in thematic terms, as well as the influence of Nietzsche’s Zarathustra on both.
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