You Must Change Your Life (49 page)

FIRST EDITION

Excerpts from letters by Paula Modersohn-Becker first published in German as
Paula Modersohn-
Becker in Briefen und Tagebüchern
© 1979 S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt. English translation
© 1983 by Taplinger Publishing Company, Inc. Northwestern University Press edition published
1990 by arrangement with S. Fischer Verlag. All rights reserved.

“Put out my eyes, and I can see you still” and “I read it in your word” by Rainer Maria Rilke,
translated by Babette Deutch, from
Poems from the Book of Hours
, copyright © 1941 by
New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

“Archaic Torso of Apollo,” “The Panther,” and “Self-Portrait from the Year 1906” from
Translations
from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
, by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by M. D. Herter Norton.
Copyright 1938 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., renewed © 1966 by M. D. Herter Norton.
Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Excerpt from “The Departure of the Prodigal Son” from
A Year with Rilke
, translated and edited
by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

Excerpts from
Letters to a Young Poet
by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by M. D. Herter Norton.
Copyright 1934, 1954 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., renewed © 1962, 1982 by
M. D. Herter Norton. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Excerpts from
Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke: 1910–1926
, translated by Jane Bannard Greene and
M. D. Herter Norton. Copyright 1947, 1948 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., renewed © 1975 by
M. D. Herter Norton. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

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Jacket photographs (Rainer Maria Rilke & Auguste Rodin) © Albert Harlingue / Roger-Viollet / The Image Works; (Paris) Cap / Roger Viollet / Getty Images

THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HAS CATALOGED THE PRINTED EDITION AS FOLLOWS:

Names: Corbett, Rachel, 1984- author.
Title: You must change your life : the story of Rainer Maria Rilke and
Auguste Rodin / Rachel Corbett.
Description: First edition. | New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2016. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016013563 | ISBN 9780393245059 (hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926—Biography. | Rilke, Rainer
Maria, 1875-1926—Friends and associates. | Authors, German—20th
century—Biography. | Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917—Biography. | Rodin,
Auguste, 1840-1917—Friends and associates. | Sculptors—France—20th
century—Biography.
Classification: LCC PT2635.I65 Z66144 2016 | DDC 831/.912 [B]—dc23 LC record
available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016013563

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