My Life (Revised and Updated)W. W. Norton & Company, 27 mei 2013 - 368 pagina's A remarkable account of a wildly artistic life, finally restored to its unexpurgated form, with a revealing new introduction by Joan Acocella. The visionary choreographer and dancer Isadora Duncan (1877–1927) not only revolutionized dance in the twentieth century but blazed a path for other visionaries who would follow in her wake. While many biographies have explored Duncan’s crucial role as one of the founders of modern dance, no other book has proved as critical—as both historical record and vivid evocation of a riveting life—as her autobiography. From her early enchantment with classical music and poetry to her great successes abroad, to her sensational love affairs and headline-grabbing personal tragedies, Duncan’s story is a dramatic one. My Life still stands alone as “a great document, revealing the truth of her life as she understood it, without reticence or apology or compromise” (New York Herald Tribune). Now, in this fully restored edition, with its risqué recollections and fervent idealism, My Life can be appreciated by a new generation. |
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Pagina xi
... Craig, and though this was a time when Duncan needed help, he gave her none. That is hardly a surprise, wife, a common-law wife, and five children. Indeed, for quite. since he had—in addition to Duncan and additional mistresses—a ...
... Craig, and though this was a time when Duncan needed help, he gave her none. That is hardly a surprise, wife, a common-law wife, and five children. Indeed, for quite. since he had—in addition to Duncan and additional mistresses—a ...
Pagina xii
... Craig was a cad. Duncan's sexual initiation came much later than she wanted, but she finally achieved it at the age of twenty—four, with a handsome Hungarian actor, Oskar Beregi (“Romed' in My Life). It was a horrible experience, she ...
... Craig was a cad. Duncan's sexual initiation came much later than she wanted, but she finally achieved it at the age of twenty—four, with a handsome Hungarian actor, Oskar Beregi (“Romed' in My Life). It was a horrible experience, she ...
Pagina xvi
... Craig); the utopian politics (communism); the feminism (dress reform, free love): Duncan fit in, to say the least. She was also an heir of Wagner, the most influential artist of the late nineteenth century. Her melding of dance with ...
... Craig); the utopian politics (communism); the feminism (dress reform, free love): Duncan fit in, to say the least. She was also an heir of Wagner, the most influential artist of the late nineteenth century. Her melding of dance with ...
Pagina xix
... Craig raping Duncan's secretary—mostly, it seems, in the service of saving rep— utations, or avoiding lawsuits. Names were deleted or disguised. Such sanitizing is to be expected in a book published in 1927. But eighty—five years have ...
... Craig raping Duncan's secretary—mostly, it seems, in the service of saving rep— utations, or avoiding lawsuits. Names were deleted or disguised. Such sanitizing is to be expected in a book published in 1927. But eighty—five years have ...
Pagina xxix
... Craig, is born. I\/Iakes first tour of the United States. Begins affair with Paris Singer. Her son, Patrick, fathered by Singer, is born. Deirdre and Patrick, with their nanny, accidentally drown in the Seine. Gives birth to a third ...
... Craig, is born. I\/Iakes first tour of the United States. Begins affair with Paris Singer. Her son, Patrick, fathered by Singer, is born. Deirdre and Patrick, with their nanny, accidentally drown in the Seine. Gives birth to a third ...
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