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Winner of the 2016 Marfield Prize
In 1902, Rainer Maria Rilke―then a struggling poet in Germany―went to Paris to investigate and write a brief book concerning the sculptor Auguste Rodin. The 2 were almost polar opposites: Rilke in his twenties, subtle and unknown; Rodin in his sixties, carnal and respected. Yet they fell into a right away friendship. Transporting readers to early twentieth-century Paris, Rachel Corbett’s You Should Change Your Life is a colourful portrait of Rilke and Rodin and their circle, revealing how deeply Rodin’s concepts about art and creativity influenced Rilke’s classic Letters to a Young Poet. 16 illustrations