"You Must Change Your Life, [is] Rachel Corbett's perceptive evocation of Rilke's relationship with the sculptor Auguste Rodin, the subject of one of Rilke s first books."
n Paris in 1902, Auguste Rodin had just completed The Thinker; visiting from Prague was Rainer Maria Rilke, broke and with writer s block. When Rilke was commissioned to write a book about Rodin, everything changed. You Must Change Your Life tells one of the great stories of modern art and literature: Rodin and Rilke s years together as master and disciple, their heartbreaking rift and finally, their moving reconciliation. Rachel Corbett reveals how Rodin s friendship led Rilke to write his most celebrated poems and inspired his Letters to a Young Poet. She captures the dawn of Modernism amid the characters that made up Rilke and Rodin s circle, including Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse, Lou Andreas-Salome, George Bernard Shaw and Jean Cocteau. And she recounts the friendship of two artists whose work reverberates a century later.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "[An] empathetic and imaginative biography, deeply researched."The New Yorker In 1902, Rainer Maria Rilkethen a struggling poet in Germanywent 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 friendshipand before long Rodin hired Rilke as his secretary. With verve and great insight, Corbett transports readers to turn-of-the-twentieth-century Paris to explore this surprising friendship and the development of their influential ideas about art and creativity. She captures the dawn of modernism with appearances by such charismatic figures as Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse, Isadora Duncan, George Bernard Shaw, and Jean Cocteau, as well as the rise of the concept of "empathy" amid the pioneering work of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Georg Simmel. Corbett also introduces the women in these mens lives, many of them esteemed writers and artists in their own right: Rodins muse Camille Claudel, Rilkes wife and fellow artist Clara Westhoff, and the remarkable Lou Andreas-Salome, who was Nietzsches lover and Rilkes lifelong friend. You Must Change Your Life is a vibrant portrait of Rilke and Rodins singular friendship, heartbreaking rift, and moving reconciliation, and it is a testament to the ways their work continues to reverberate to this day.16 illustrations The extraordinary story of the one of the most fruitful friendships in modern arts and letters. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780393354928
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