Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky Author:Joan Acocella 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 a... more »s 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. Illustrations.« less