You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin - Hardcover

Rachel Corbett

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393245055 ISBN 13: 9780393245059

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2016

Synopsis

"...an enjoyable biography of the brief, intense relationship between Rilke and Auguste Rodin...Corbett's narrative is pacy and vivid..." Financial Times

Paris, 1902: Renowned sculptor Auguste Rodin has just completed The Thinker. Rainer Maria Rilke is a delicate young visitor from Prague, broke and suffering from a case of writer's block. When Rilke is commissioned to write a book about Rodin, everything changes...You Must Change Your Life reveals one of the great stories of modern art and literature: Rodin and Rilke's years together as master and disciple, their heartbreaking rift, and ultimately their moving reconciliation. In her vibrant debut, Rachel Corbett reveals how Rodin's influence led Rilke to write his most celebrated poems and inspired his beloved Letters to a Young Poet. She captures the dawn of modernism with appearances by Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse, Lou Andreas-Salome, George Bernard Shaw, and Jean Cocteau. And she recounts the remarkable friendship of two extraordinary artists whose work continues to reverberate a century later.

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About the Author

Rachel Corbett is a correspondent for The Art Newspaper. Her writing has also appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, the BBC, New York magazine, and others. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393245055
• ISBN 13: 9780393245059
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320