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Cargando... Dancer: A Novel (2003 original; edición 2009)por Colum McCann
Información de la obraEl bailarín por Colum McCann (2003)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Poco después de que el Ejército Rojo hubiera derrotado al nazismo, Nureyev saltó desde la Rusia soviética a París y al Nueva York de posguerra de Andy Warhol. Un salto vertiginoso. Nureyev fue famoso no sólo por sus actuaciones en el escenario sino también por sus bufonadas de mestizo internacional, una fuerza social, un símbolo, un enigma. Su paso dejó una estela por la que parecía fluir el siglo XX, de la pobreza al exceso, del comunismo al capitalismo, del exilio a la fama.
Here is a plump gift of a tale and one in which all the old themes - the pain of exile, the nature of celebrity, the dark streak that lurks within every genius - lie snugly side by side. But, swept along by Nureyev's voracious life, he decides to tell his story through the perspectives of others [...] The result, in this case at least, is the kind of prose that longs to be (and occasionally is) as soaringly muscular as Nureyev's own 'momentary lightness', but, more often than not, simply reminds one of a showy stage-school brat clamouring for a standing ovation. Pertenece a las series editorialesPremiosDistinciones
This novel opens with a scene of war which is destined to become a classic: trudging back from the front through a ravaged and icy wasteland, their horses dying around them, their own hunger rendering them almost savage, the Russian soldiers are exhausted as they reach the city of Ufa, desperate for food and shelter. They find both, and then music and dance. And there, spinning unafraid among them, dancing for the soldiers and anyone else who¿ll watch him, is one small pale boy, Rudolf. This is Colum McCann¿s dancer. Rudolf, a prodigy at six years old, became the greatest dancer of the century, redefined dance, rewrote his own life, and died of AIDS before anyone knew he had it. This is an extraordinary life transformed into extraordinary fiction by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation. One kind of masculine grace is perfectly matched to another in Colum McCann¿s beautiful and daring novel. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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