You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin
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299,00 Kč |
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599,00 Kč |
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749,00 Kč |
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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.
“The old master: grizzled, unforgiving, daunting; a young man: neurasthenic, brilliant, full of feeling. You Must Change Your Life is the story of the unlikely friendship between Auguste Rodin and Rainer Maria Rilke, two men grappling with questions of life, art, and modernity in early-twentieth-century Paris. Rachel Corbett has written an elegant and moving account of what was a cultural turning point, seen through the eyes of two very different artists.” — Luke Barr, author of Provence, 1970
“Charming and funny, Rachel Corbett renders turn-of-the-twentieth-century Paris in all its gritty glory, illustrating how the same place that saw ‘Baudelaire charge through the streets waving a gun and Balzac nearly starve to death’ could foster a magical artistic relationship like this one.” — Ada Calhoun. author of St. Marks Is Dead
“In telling the story of what Rilke and Rodin shared, Rachel Corbett reconstructs the dramas of an entire past world, with its characters and customs, epiphanies and heartbreaks. At the same time, she has managed the neat trick of producing the rare work of intellectual history that reads as a vital guide to what it means to be a thinking, feeling artist in the present.” — Ben Davis, author of 9.5 Theses on Art and Class
“In honeyed, knowing prose, Rachel Corbett twines two great serpents of art: the suppleness of Rodin’s malleable flesh and eroticism and Rilke’s endless lyrical rivers. New portals of aesthetic intonations open; invisible elements come into sight.” — Jerry Saltz, senoir art critic, New York Magazine
“A smartly written biography. . . . Rilke and Rodin, both intriguing figures in their own right, are only the more fascinating when treated together as fellow artists and close friends.” — Publishers Weekly
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