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You must change your life : the story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin / Rachel Corbett.

Corbett, Rachel, 1984- (author.).

Summary:

"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 Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Lou Andreas-Salomé, George Bernard Shaw, and Jean Cocteau. And she recounts the remarkable friendship of two extraordinary artists whose work continues to reverberate a century later." --Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780393245059
ISBN: 0393245055
Physical Description: x, 310 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-298) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction -- Part One: Poet and sculptor -- Part Two: Master and disciple -- Part Three: Art and empathy.