Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky

Name: Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky
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ISBN: 9780252073625

ISBN-10: 0252073622

ISBN-13: 9780252073625

Edition: 2006

Authors: Joan Acocella, Vaslav Nijinsky, Kyril FitzLyon

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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…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 10/16/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Introduction


Translator's Preface


The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky



On Life



On Death


Appendixes



The Fourth Notebook



Note on the Manuscript


Bibliography


Acknowledgments