The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky (Penguin Modern Classics)

by VaslavNijinsky (Author), KyrilFitzLyon (Editor), JoanRossAcocella (Editor)

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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 began to go mad. This diary, which he kept in four notebooks over six weeks, offers an account of a major artist of entering psychosis. A prodigy from his youth in Russia, Nijinsky came to international fame as a principal dancer in Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. After a falling-out between the two great men - who had lived openly as lovers for some time - Nijinsky struggled to make a career on his own. When psychosis struck, he began to imagine himself married to god, signing his entries God Nijinsky . Although he lived another 30 years, he never regained his sanity.