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Read [Vaslav Nijinsky Book] * The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky Online # PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky Brilliant and Illuminating A Customer A fascinating and powerful opportunity to peer (uninterfered) into a portion of the many facets which make up a great and influential artist. Definately not for the idiot reader who thinks artists write diaries to entertain.. "What was the publisher thinking?" according to A Customer. This is precisely the kind of tome that deserves to gather dust on a library shelf. Even for a fan of dance and particularly dance during the Nijinsky era, it contains only two
| Title | : | The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.43 (917 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0252073622 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-28 |
| Language | : | English |
The diary was first published in 1936, in a version heavily bowdlerized by Nijinsky's wife. In some entries he is filled with hope. 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 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. He is dogged by sexual obsessions and grief over World War I. The new edition, translated by Kyril FitzLyon, is the first complete and accurate English rendering of this searing document. Furthermore, he is afraid that he is going insane.
Fearful that his wife would (as she ultimately did) commit him, and highly suspicious of the physician-cum-amateur psychiatrist who daily came by to examine him, Nijinsky perceived the diary as the only safe haven for the rambling thoughts that were overtaking him. The noises of the household, the ringing of the phone, footsteps down the hall, smatterings of conversations overheard are all registered as a sort of accompaniment to his dance with madness and function perhaps as a final tether to reality. His writing becomes more obscure as the weeks progress and he examines his relationship to God, writing "I am God" at
Brilliant and Illuminating A Customer A fascinating and powerful opportunity to peer (uninterfered) into a portion of the many facets which make up a great and influential artist. Definately not for the idiot reader who thinks artists write diaries to entertain.. "What was the publisher thinking?" according to A Customer. This is precisely the kind of tome that deserves to gather dust on a library shelf. Even for a fan of dance and particularly dance during the Nijinsky era, it contains only two or three passages that are casually of interest and by no means earth shattering. This unexpurgated edition does little to shak. Great read, if you know the truth kinga gaspers As Nijinsky's granddaughter , I disagree with Amazon's review, as it is full of mistakes. The unexpurgated Diary was published in 1995, for the first time, it is definitely under copyright, owned by the family. That is the major error, there are many morerespectfully, please stick to the truth.
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