You Must Change Your Life"[An] empathetic and imaginative biography, deeply researched." The New Yorker In 1902, Rainer Maria Rilkethen a struggling poet in Germanywent 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 friendshipand before long Rodin hired Rilke as his secretary. With verve