Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

You must change your life

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

937452533

Responsibility statement

Rachel Corbett

Sub title

the story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin

Summary

"The extraordinary story of one of the most fruitful friendships in modern arts and letters. 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

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Part One: Poet and sculptor -- Part Two: Master and disciple -- Part Three: Art and empathy

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