Nijinsky's Feeling Mind

The first in-depth study of Vaslav Nijinsky's life-writing, this book combines textual analysis and literary theory with intellectual biography to elucidate the dancer's riffs on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche. This interdisciplinary study explores the modernist contexts from which the dancer-writer emerged at the end of World War I.

Nicole Svobodny is senior lecturer in global studies at Washington University in St. Louis and coeditor of Migration and Mobility in the Modern Age and Under the Sky of My Africa.

Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration Introduction Part I: From Stage to Page 1. Trance Dance 2. Walking and Talking 3. Predator-Prey Part II: A Life in Books and Magazines 4. Reading Nijinsky Reading 5. Dancing the Tightrope Between World of Art and Feeling Conclusion Bibliography Index About the Author