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The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky

by Joan Acocella
Vaslav Nijinsky
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THE ASTONISHING DIARIES OF THE GREAT DANCER In December 1917, Vaslav Nijinsky world, moved into a Swiss villa with his wife and three-year-old daughter and began to go mad. A prodigy from his youth in Russia, Nijinsky came to international fame as a principal dancer in Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. When psychosis struck, he began to imagine himself as married to God. Although he lived another thirty years, he never regained his sanity. This diary, which he kept in four notebooks over six weeks, is Nijinsky's confession and his prophecy, the only sustained, on the spot account we have by a major artist of the experience of entering psychosis.

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Publisher: Phoenix Books, Inc. Edition: Unabridged

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  • File size: 272589 KB
  • Release date: April 17, 2007
  • Duration: 09:27:53

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  • ISBN: 9781597776752
  • File size: 272899 KB
  • Release date: April 17, 2007
  • Duration: 09:27:53
  • Number of parts: 8
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Biography & Autobiography Nonfiction

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THE ASTONISHING DIARIES OF THE GREAT DANCER In December 1917, Vaslav Nijinsky world, moved into a Swiss villa with his wife and three-year-old daughter and began to go mad. A prodigy from his youth in Russia, Nijinsky came to international fame as a principal dancer in Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. When psychosis struck, he began to imagine himself as married to God. Although he lived another thirty years, he never regained his sanity. This diary, which he kept in four notebooks over six weeks, is Nijinsky's confession and his prophecy, the only sustained, on the spot account we have by a major artist of the experience of entering psychosis.

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Biography & Autobiography Nonfiction