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

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. 16 illustrations

• Letters to a Young Poet
• Auguste Rodin (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)
• Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations
• Letters to a Young Poet
• The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke: Bilingual Edition (English and German Edition)
• Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
• Letters to a Young Poet (Modern Library)
• The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation (Modern Library Classics)
• Letters to a Young Painter
• Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual-Language Edition (Vintage International)