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The Complete Ballet: A Fictional Essay in Five Acts (en Inglés)
John Haskell (Autor)
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The Complete Ballet: A Fictional Essay in Five Acts (en Inglés) - John Haskell
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A dark-hued, hybrid novel by a writer who delivers our culture back to us, made entirely new (A. M. Homes)In The Complete Ballet, John Haskell choreographs an intricate and irresistible pas de deux in which fiction and criticism come together to create a new kind of story. Fueled by the dramatic retelling of five romantic ballets, and interwoven with a contemporary story about a man whose daunting gambling debt pushes him to the edge of his own abyss, it is both a pulpy entertainment and a meditation on the physicalityand psychologyof dance.The unnamed narrator finds himself inexorably drawn back to the precell phone world of Technicolor Los Angeles, to a time when the tragedies of his life were about to collide. Working as a part-time masseur in Hollywood, he attends an underground poker game with his friend Cosmo, a strip-club entrepreneur. What happens there hurtles the narrator down the road and into the room where the novels violent and surreal showdown leaves him a different person.As the narrator revisits his past, he simultaneously inhabits and reconstructs the mythic stories of ballet, assessing along the way the lives and obsessions of Nijinsky and Balanchine, Pavlova and Fonteyn, Joseph Cornell and the storys presiding spirit, the film director John Cassavetes. This compulsively readable fiction is ultimately a profound and haunting consideration of the nature of art and identity.
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