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Nijinsky A Life

Moore Lucy
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781846686191
Publisert
2014-05-22
Utgiver
Profile Books Ltd
Vekt
260 gr
Høyde
196 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
26 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
352

Forfatter
Moore Lucy

Biografisk notat

Lucy Moore is an author and broadcaster whose work includes the bestselling Maharanis: The Lives & Times of Three Generations of Indian Princesses. She has written for the Sunday Times, Observer, Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, and has presented series for the BBC and Sky.

Nijinsky A Life

Moore Lucy
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk
Moore Lucy
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk
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Mesmerising ... enthralling ... atmospheric ... meticulous and intelligent ... Moore's descriptions of Nijinsky's eventual isolation from his sister, rejection by his wife, and how he remained locked in insanity for the rest of his life are unforgettable

Daily Telegraph

Superb biography ... Moore recounts [Nijinsky's story] with scholarship, grace and imagination

Sunday Times

His final curtain was cruel, and Moore lowers the darkness with great tenderness

Guardian

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Highly intelligent, lucidly presented and consistently absorbing...a clear and objective picture of a tragically wounded genius

- Rupert Christiansen, Literary Review

Lucid prose...The colour and the pain of an extraordinary life come across vividly

- David Nice, BBC Music Magazine

Highly readable and absorbing

The Lady

Excellent

Times

Despite the sad, upsetting nature of Nijinsky's story, Moore's enjoyable biography does a fine job of explaining not only who Nijinsky was, but - once you peel away the glitter - why he really mattered

Scotsman

She never loses sight of why Nijinsky's art was so great. The result is a captivating biography

Financial Times

'He achieves the miraculous,' the sculptor Auguste Rodin wrote of dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. 'He embodies all the beauty of classical frescoes and statues'. Like so many since, Rodin recognised that in Nijinsky classical ballet had one of the greatest and most original artists of the twentieth century, in any genre. Immersed in the world of dance from his childhood, he found his natural home in the Imperial Theatre and the Ballets Russes, he had a powerful sponsor in Sergei Diaghilev - until a dramatic and public failure ended his career and set him on a route to madness. As a dancer, he was acclaimed as godlike for his extraordinary grace and elevation, but the opening of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring saw furious brawls between admirers of his radically unballetic choreography and horrified traditionalists. Nijinsky's story has lost none of its power to shock, fascinate and move. Adored and reviled in his lifetime, his phenomenal talent was shadowed by schizophrenia and an intense but destructive relationship with his lover, Diaghilev. 'I am alive' he wrote in his diary, 'and so I suffer'. In the first biography for forty years, Lucy Moore examines a career defined by two forces - inspired performance and an equally headline-grabbing talent for controversy, which tells us much about both genius and madness. This is the full story of one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century, comparable to the work of Rosamund Bartlett or Sjeng Scheijen.
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The first major biography for forty years tells the tragic story of ballet's great revolutionary, Nijinsky.
The first major biography for forty years tells the tragic story of ballet's great revolutionary, Nijinsky - now in paperback.

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Mesmerising ... enthralling ... atmospheric ... meticulous and intelligent ... Moore's descriptions of Nijinsky's eventual isolation from his sister, rejection by his wife, and how he remained locked in insanity for the rest of his life are unforgettable

Daily Telegraph

Superb biography ... Moore recounts [Nijinsky's story] with scholarship, grace and imagination

Sunday Times

His final curtain was cruel, and Moore lowers the darkness with great tenderness

Guardian

Se alle

Highly intelligent, lucidly presented and consistently absorbing...a clear and objective picture of a tragically wounded genius

- Rupert Christiansen, Literary Review

Lucid prose...The colour and the pain of an extraordinary life come across vividly

- David Nice, BBC Music Magazine

Highly readable and absorbing

The Lady

Excellent

Times

Despite the sad, upsetting nature of Nijinsky's story, Moore's enjoyable biography does a fine job of explaining not only who Nijinsky was, but - once you peel away the glitter - why he really mattered

Scotsman

She never loses sight of why Nijinsky's art was so great. The result is a captivating biography

Financial Times

'He achieves the miraculous,' the sculptor Auguste Rodin wrote of dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. 'He embodies all the beauty of classical frescoes and statues'. Like so many since, Rodin recognised that in Nijinsky classical ballet had one of the greatest and most original artists of the twentieth century, in any genre. Immersed in the world of dance from his childhood, he found his natural home in the Imperial Theatre and the Ballets Russes, he had a powerful sponsor in Sergei Diaghilev - until a dramatic and public failure ended his career and set him on a route to madness. As a dancer, he was acclaimed as godlike for his extraordinary grace and elevation, but the opening of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring saw furious brawls between admirers of his radically unballetic choreography and horrified traditionalists. Nijinsky's story has lost none of its power to shock, fascinate and move. Adored and reviled in his lifetime, his phenomenal talent was shadowed by schizophrenia and an intense but destructive relationship with his lover, Diaghilev. 'I am alive' he wrote in his diary, 'and so I suffer'. In the first biography for forty years, Lucy Moore examines a career defined by two forces - inspired performance and an equally headline-grabbing talent for controversy, which tells us much about both genius and madness. This is the full story of one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century, comparable to the work of Rosamund Bartlett or Sjeng Scheijen.
Les mer
The first major biography for forty years tells the tragic story of ballet's great revolutionary, Nijinsky.
The first major biography for forty years tells the tragic story of ballet's great revolutionary, Nijinsky - now in paperback.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781846686191
Publisert
2014-05-22
Utgiver
Profile Books Ltd
Vekt
260 gr
Høyde
196 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
26 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
352

Forfatter
Moore Lucy

Biografisk notat

Lucy Moore is an author and broadcaster whose work includes the bestselling Maharanis: The Lives & Times of Three Generations of Indian Princesses. She has written for the Sunday Times, Observer, Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, and has presented series for the BBC and Sky.

Relaterte produkter