Fabulous is the only adjective that comes close to doing justice to Isadora Duncan (1878-1927). Her awesomely self-assured autobiography depicts a woman who while still in her teens tells an eminent theatrical manager (from whom she desperately needs a job), "I have discovered the art that has been lost for two thousand years.... I bring you the dance." In Duncan's rendering of...
Fabulous is the only adjective that comes close to doing justice to Isadora Duncan (1878-1927). Her awesomely self-assured autobiography depicts a woman who while still in her teens tells an eminent theatrical manager (from whom she desperately needs a job), "I have discovered the art that has been lost for two thousand years.... I bring you the dance." In Duncan's rendering of her life, composers fling themselves at the piano and compose new music for her on the spot. Men pine for her love (the book's sexual frankness, while hardly startling today, was considered quite scandalous in 1927). And the poor mortals who can never understand her need to be free can at least applaud wildly at her concerts. Duncan and her siblings sleep in a bare Parisian attic, then dance barefoot through the Luxembourg Gardens. They travel to Greece to worship "in the Sacred Land of Hellas," where they build their very own temple. Duncan is capable of seeing the humor in her rhapsodic immersion in art, but we don't really want her to be realistic and self-deprecating like ordinary mortals. It's her divine passion, her supreme confidence in her own genius that make My Life such fun to read. --Wendy Smith
"The dancer of the future will be one whose body and soul have grown so harmoniously together that the natural language of that soul will have become the movement of the human body. The dancer will not belong to any nation but to all humanity." ...
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荷马的玫瑰
商务印书馆1993版
银手镯
东方出版社2005版
我是克里斯蒂
南海出版公司2015版
夏怡风的老伴~
上海远东出版社2005版
0 有用 sillykoala 2014-03-21 06:51:13
A woman's expression of the truth of her being.
0 有用 地球的心跳 2012-07-23 12:44:58
你若盛开，清风自来。
0 有用 Y酱 2012-03-12 09:55:48
关于爱和艺术真挚动人的独白。
0 有用 踢踢 2012-07-19 14:27:36
大学时期读过中文版，被她悲剧性的一生深深，深深地震撼到。原版读了1/3，放弃了。2010年夏天读的吧，和sanfeng一起。
0 有用 烟波蓝的夏天 2011-10-18 10:45:43
敬佩你完美的艺术人生和给予我的艺术启迪和灵感。Mother of modern Dance!!
0 有用 花昀诗人 2016-02-04 09:17:21
喜欢她 奈何薄命
0 有用 sillykoala 2014-03-21 06:51:13
A woman's expression of the truth of her being.
0 有用 janeminibreak 2012-12-05 19:10:37
写得稍显沉闷，不有趣。
0 有用 地球的心跳 2012-07-23 12:44:58
你若盛开，清风自来。
0 有用 踢踢 2012-07-19 14:27:36
大学时期读过中文版，被她悲剧性的一生深深，深深地震撼到。原版读了1/3，放弃了。2010年夏天读的吧，和sanfeng一起。