Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky

In Dec. 1917, Vaslav Nijinsky, the most famous male dancer in the Western world, moved into a Swiss villa with his wife & daughter & started to go insane. This diary, which he kept in 4 notebooks over 6 weeks, is the only sustained, on-the-spot account we have by a major artist of the experience of entering psychosis. Nijinsky had come to fame as the principal dancer in Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. When madness struck, he began to image himself as God. He lived another 30 years, but he never regained his sanity. The present edition is the complete version in English, & the first version in any language to include the 4th notebook, written at the very edge of psychosis. Almost unbearable to read.Ó Illustrations.Acocella, Joan R. is the author of 'Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky', published 2001 under ISBN 9780788197772 and ISBN 0788197770.