Rachel Corbett, "You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 039335492X, 0393245055 | EPUB | pages: 310 | 2.6 mb
English | 2017 | ISBN: 039335492X, 0393245055 | EPUB | pages: 310 | 2.6 mb
Winner of the 2016 Marfield Prize
In 1902, Rainer Maria Rilke―then a struggling poet in Germany―went to Paris to research and write a short book about the sculptor Auguste Rodin. The two were almost polar opposites: Rilke in his twenties, delicate and unknown; Rodin in his sixties, carnal and revered. Yet they fell into an instantaneous friendship. Transporting readers to early twentieth-century Paris, Rachel Corbett’s You Must Change Your Life is a vibrant portrait of Rilke and Rodin and their circle, revealing how deeply Rodin’s ideas about art and creativity influenced Rilke’s classic Letters to a Young Poet. 16 illustrations

