![]() ![]() Still, Camille and Rodin are anemic creations. ![]() She details the sexism female artists faced and hints at the personal toll of being driven by great ambition. Webb’s research is meticulous, and she transcends the historical romance genre by describing the undercurrents of Claudel’s world incisively. Webb ( Becoming Josephine, 2013) tells the true story of sculptor Claudel and her struggle to be remembered by a world that rejects everything about her. She's determined to etch her name in history despite society’s belief that women can’t be artists, her mother’s belief that she should stay home and get married, and the dark voices in her head that grow louder with each passing day. Then she wants him, too.Ĭaught between her relentless ambition and her searing desire for Rodin, Camille makes her way through 19th-century Paris. Beautiful and tortured Camille Claudel wants nothing more than to be one of the greatest sculptors of all time-until she meets Auguste Rodin. ![]()
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