The narrator of one this author's works tells the story of the False Dmitri, who was happy as an imp
The narrator of one this author's works tells the story of the False Dmitri, who was happy as an impostor, until he is believed to be the real Dmitri and feels trapped in the identity of another person. One of this author's title characters watches doctors pierce the heart of his father's corpse, following a provision in that father's will, and recalls his chamberlain uncle being carried around by servants while dying of dropsy. This author wrote that we must learn to use solitude, because solitude is difficult, and we must trust in what is difficult, in the seventh of ten (*) posthumously collected and published missives. He declared that "Nobody can advise or help you. [...] Go into yourself" in that correspondence with Franz Xaver Kappus. His only novel is the fictional diary of the title Danish poet in Paris. For 10 points, name this German author of Letters to a Young Poet and the novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurits Brigge.
The narrator of one this author's works tells the story of the False Dmitri, who was happy as an impostor, until he is believed to be the real Dmitri and feels trapped in the identity of another person.
Rainer Maria Rilke