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The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky: Unexpurgated Edition
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The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky: Unexpurgated Edition Paperback - 2000

by Vaslav Nijinsky; Joan Ross Acocella (Editor); Kyril Fitzlyon (Translator)


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The astonishing, legendary diaries of the great dancer, complete and unexpurgated
In December 1917, Vaslav Nijinsky, the most famous male dancer in the Western world, moved into a Swiss villa with his wife and three-year-old daughter and began to go mad. This diary, which he kept in four notebooks over six weeks, is the only sustained, on-the-spot written account we have by a major artist of the experience of entering psychosis. Nijinsky's diary was first published in 1936, in a heavily bowdlerized version that omitted almost half of his text. The present edition, translated by Kyril FitzLyon, is the first complete version in English and the first version in any language to include the fourth notebook, which was written at the very edge of madness. It contains Nijinsky's last lucid thoughts--on God, sex, war, and the nature of the universe, as well as on his own broken life. In her Introduction, the noted dance writer Joan Acocella explains the context of the diary and its place in the history of modernism.

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I have had a good lunch, for I ate two soft-boiled eggs and fried potatoes and beans.

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  • Title The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky: Unexpurgated Edition
  • Author Vaslav Nijinsky; Joan Ross Acocella (Editor); Kyril Fitzlyon (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar Straus Giroux, New York
  • Date May 1, 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780374526856 / 0374526850
  • Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.22 x 5.44 x 0.99 in (20.88 x 13.82 x 2.51 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Joan Acocella is the dance critic of "The New Yorker," author of "Mark Morris "(FSG, 1993), and co-author of the textbook" Abnormal Psychology."
Kyril Fitz Lyon has translated Tolstoy, Chekhov, and others from Russian and French.
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