Ostwald, Peter Vaslav Nijinski: Un saut dans la folie.

Translated from English by Bruno Ponchral.

Paris, Passage du Marais, [1993].
8vo, 422, [3] pp., ill.

In original pictorial wrappers.
In good condition, lightly rubbed.

First French translation.

First published in English in 1991, this book about the great ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky (1889–1950) was written by Peter Ostwald (1928–1996), a professor of psychiatry at the University of California. Unlike previous biographers, who focused primarily on Nijinsky's early and most creative years, he gives equal weight to the 30 years this remarkable artist spent in mental institutions. With access to previously untapped medical records and archival documents, the author provides a clinical insight into Nijinsky's troubled life and relationships.