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

By Rachel Corbett

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039335492X
• ISBN13: 9780393354928
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.0"