Dancer: Picador Modern Classics
Autor Colum McCannen Limba Engleză Paperback – iun 2015
Taking his inspiration from biographical facts, novelist Colum McCann tells the erotically charged story of the Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev through the cast of those who knew him: there is Anna Vasileva, Rudi's first ballet teacher, who rescues her protege from the stunted life of his provincial town; Yulia, whose sexual and artistic ambitions are thwarted by her Soviet-sanctioned marriage; and Victor, the Venezuelan street hustler, who reveals the lurid underside of the gay celebrity set. Spanning four decades and many worlds, from the horrors of the Second World War to the wild abandon of New York in the eighties, Dancer is peopled by a large cast of characters, obscure and famous: doormen and shoemakers, nurses and translators, Margot Fonteyn, Eric Bruhn and John Lennon. And at the heart of the spectacle stands the artist himself, willful, lustful, and driven by a never-to-be-met need for perfection."
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1250051797
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 140 x 206 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Picador USA
Seria Picador Modern Classics
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McCann's remarkable novel . McCann's prose - nimble, lyrical and wispy - does full justice to the tragic story of a dancer who was the glory of his generation
It's a strikingly original book, and as apparently effortless as one of Fonteyn's pirouettes or Nureyev's leaps into space
An utterly riveting, frequently moving, and staggeringly well-written book
McCann's agile, muscular prose creates its own energy and rhythm . he has taken one of the most charismatic characters of the 20th century and created a bold contemporary novel
Like its subject, it spins with virtuoso, charismatic brilliance around a core of wilful mystery
Here is an astonishing book. Colum McCann writes with a ferocious eloquence and a masterly sense of narrative . he has given us something wonderful
Dancer brilliantly conveys Nureyev's charisma. He haunted you. You couldn't shake him off. His eyes were "complicated and blue", and such is McCann's skill and intuition, we penetrate that gaze
Employing a multiplicity of narrators, and skilfully interchanging between them . McCann produces a vivid, many-faceted portrait of the man. He succeeds in lifting Nureyev off the page and planting him firmly in the mind of the reader . There are charming vignettes ... The range of wonderfully evoked settings is impressive
Dancer is an enticing read . McCann has an especially tender way with the human body
Here is what it feels like to be possessed by the genius of dance. It is the story of something mysterious and intangible, beauty combined with a potentially crude element, the human body . Dancer is an ambitious and thrilling novel
It is the bleak scenes of everyday Russian life, the school of hard knocks in which the genius was forged, that are the chief glory of a fine book
McCann takes the germ of an idea - the unknowable icon, the 1970s pinup - and with compassion and an outpouring of imagination, builds a ferociously original tale of that life's gifts and iniquities
A beautiful, floating novel about Nureyev's life and art