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
伊莎多拉·邓肯 美国著名舞蹈家,现代舞蹈的创始人,把解释性舞蹈提高到创造性艺术地位的先驱之一,在表现生活艺术的舞台上,邓肯以奔放的情爱和强烈的母爱来表现其独特的艺术风貌。
读过本书的3个版本,原因自然是喜欢伊莎多拉一生的自由之舞。这一版我买回家收藏了起来。外套都没有去掉就放在了书架上,就像小时候得到了一罐子好吃的蜂蜜,不忍心吃,先藏起来一样那般的真惜。
评分 评分这个结局看的人匪夷所思,邓肯最终投入了共党的怀抱?真正光怪陆离如梦如幻的奇特一生,感觉她世界中的梦想与现实都是融为一体真真假假分没有清晰界限的,她靠爱情和舞蹈的灵感和激情而活,艺术家多出精神病的原因也许是他们很难将现实与精神世界区分开吧,难以想象的人生。都...
评分意料之中的,读过这本书的人很少。忘了当时是什么吸引我买下了它,但当我读了半小时后,就几乎一口气把它读完了。也许是因为那就是我所期望的、自由的一生。也是这本书,重新激发了旅行的欲望。
Isadora Duncan 传奇自有传奇存在的理由
评分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。
评分A woman's expression of the truth of her being.
评分写得稍显沉闷,不有趣。
评分你若盛开,清风自来。