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

Corbett, Rachel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 039335492X ISBN 13: 9780393354928

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2017

Synopsis

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

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About the Author

Rachel Corbett is the author of You Must Change Your Life, which won the Marfield Prize, the National Award for Arts Writing. She is a features writer at New York magazine, and her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, and the Atlantic. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 039335492X
• ISBN 13: 9780393354928
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320