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Andrew O’Hagan: Vaslav Nijinsky, 20 July 2000
The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky
edited by Joan Acocella and Kyril Fitzylon.
Allen Lane, 312 pp., £20, August 1999,0 7139 9354 5 Show More
edited by Joan Acocella and Kyril Fitzylon.
Allen Lane, 312 pp., £20, August 1999,
Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
by Modris Eksteins.
Macmillan, 396 pp., £12, May 2000,0 333 76622 9 Show More
by Modris Eksteins.
Macmillan, 396 pp., £12, May 2000,
“... Nijinsky began to lose his mind in a Swiss village in 1919. He was only 29 years old, still dazzling, animal-like, an Aschenbach vision on the Lido, a young man who could jump and pause in the air: but he began to spend all night in his studio scribbling the same things over and over, the doodlings of the incrementally mad. The thing he drew was eyes ... ”
