Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky

Vaslav Nijinsky
3.88/5 (547 ratings)
Read Now Download Now
In his prime, Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950) was the most celebrated man in Western ballet--a virtuoso and a dramatic dancer such as European and American audiences had never seen before. After his triumphs in such works as The Specter of the Rose and Petrouchka, he set out to make ballets of his own, and with his Afternoon of a Faun and The Rite of Spring, created within a year of each other, he became ballet's first modernist choreographer. Then, still in his twenties, he began to go mad. For six weeks in early 1919, as his tie to reality was giving way, Nijinsky kept a diary--the only sustained daily record we have, by a major artist, of the experience of entering psychosis. In some entries he is filled with hope. He is God; he will save the world. In other entries, he falls into a black despair. He is dogged by sexual obsessions and grief over World War I. Furthermore, he is afraid that he is going insane. The diary was first published in 1936, in a version heavily bowdlerized by Nijinsky's wife. The new edition, translated by Kyril FitzLyon, is the first complete and accurate English rendering of this searing document. In her introduction, noted dance critic Joan Acocella tells Nijinsky's story and places it in the context of early European modernism.
Format:
Pages:
312 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
Unexpurgated edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0374139210
ISBN13:
9780374139216
kindle Asin:
0374139210

The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky

Vaslav Nijinsky
3.88/5 (547 ratings)
Read Download
In his prime, Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950) was the most celebrated man in Western ballet--a virtuoso and a dramatic dancer such as European and American audiences had never seen before. After his triumphs in such works as The Specter of the Rose and Petrouchka, he set out to make ballets of his own, and with his Afternoon of a Faun and The Rite of Spring, created within a year of each other, he became ballet's first modernist choreographer. Then, still in his twenties, he began to go mad. For six weeks in early 1919, as his tie to reality was giving way, Nijinsky kept a diary--the only sustained daily record we have, by a major artist, of the experience of entering psychosis. In some entries he is filled with hope. He is God; he will save the world. In other entries, he falls into a black despair. He is dogged by sexual obsessions and grief over World War I. Furthermore, he is afraid that he is going insane. The diary was first published in 1936, in a version heavily bowdlerized by Nijinsky's wife. The new edition, translated by Kyril FitzLyon, is the first complete and accurate English rendering of this searing document. In her introduction, noted dance critic Joan Acocella tells Nijinsky's story and places it in the context of early European modernism.
Format:
Pages:
312 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
Unexpurgated edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0374139210
ISBN13:
9780374139216
kindle Asin:
0374139210

More Books

The Emperor's Tomb (Von Trotta Family, #2)

Joseph Roth

Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb

Jonathan Fetter-Vorm

Usta puna zemlje

Branimir Šćepanović

Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip-Confessions of a Cynical Waiter

The Waiter

Oeroeg

Hella S. Haasse

Sentimental Education

Gustave Flaubert

De krater

Gerwin van der Werf

Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina

Michaela DePrince

The Noise of Time

Julian Barnes

الخبز الحافي

Mohamed Choukri

Annabel Lee

Edgar Allan Poe

Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris

Sarah Turnbull