Alegorija u Rilkeovom romanu Zapisci Maltea Laufisa Briggea
The Allegory in Rilke's Novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurdis Brigge

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on relation of biblical allegory Prodigal son and Rilke’s usage of it in his only novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. I am concerned with specificity of allegory and different roles which are assigned to it. Reader aware of complexity of allegory as trope will also give attention to it in Rilke’s novel. Two main roles of allegory used in Notebooks which author wishes to point out are: (i) substantially-explaining one, and, (ii) methodical. Substantial role can be recognized in the plot which has been changed in interesting and surprising manner, while the methodical one can be discovered in changing conventional way of understanding the allegory, in the ambiguity and in its incompleteness. Associated with those two roles, Rilke also wishes to approve that even such complex trope such is allegory can have its disadvantages. He is revealing the limits of language and the limits of art in general, but also showing the possibility of reasoning through the complex mode of allegory.

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