Nijinsky - Softcover

Richard Buckle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0380004593 ISBN 13: 9780380004591

Publisher: Avon Books, 1975

Synopsis

This book is the full and moving record of Nijinsky's years of genius and madness, of the ring master who made him, the forces that broke him and the woman who never faltered in love. Nijinsky is based on years of painstaking research, countless conversationswith people who knew and worked with him, as well as reinterpreting Nijinsky's diaries and his wife's biography.

About this title

About the Author

Richard Buckle was one of the leading authorities on Diaghilev and the Ballet Russe. He was the ballet critic of the London Observer and the Sunday Times in London and was a pallbearer at Nijinsky’s funeral in 1950. Richard died in 2001.

Review

“Those not born in a time to see the most extraordinary of all male dancers will realize that all they have heard from their elders is true.” (Rebecca West - Sunday Telegraph)

Edition details

• Publisher: Avon Books
• Publication date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0380004593
• ISBN 13: 9780380004591
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1