You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin
Author | : Rachel Corbett |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2016-09-06 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780393245066 |
ISBN-13 | : 0393245063 |
Rating | : 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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.