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The diary of Vaslav Nijinsky

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An edition of Dnevnik Vat͡s︡lava Nizhinskogo (1936)

The diary of Vaslav Nijinsky

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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 started to go insane. This diary, which he kept in four notebooks over six weeks, is the only sustained, on-the-spot 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, written at the very edge of psychosis. 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.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
English
Pages
311

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Subjects
Diaries, Ballet dancers, Ballets russes, Mental health, Friends and associates, Biography, Nijinsky, waslaw, 1890-1950, Dancers, biography
People
Waslaw Nijinsky (1890-1950), Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950)
Places
Soviet Union

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2006, University of Illinois Press
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1999, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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The diary of Vaslav Nijinsky
1936, Simon and Schuster
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-310).

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792.8/092, B
Library of Congress
GV1785.N6 A3 1999, GV1785.N6A3 1999

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li, 311 p. :
Number of pages
311

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OL375530M
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0374139210
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98037409
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39985535
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51040
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831382

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