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I, Maya Plisetskaya de Maya Plisetskaya

I, Maya Plisetskaya

Autor Maya Plisetskaya Traducere de Antonina W. Bouis
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 sep 2001

Această monografie autobiografică, publicată de Yale University Press, ne oferă acces în culisele uneia dintre cele mai tumultuoase și strălucitoare cariere din istoria dansului. În volumul I, Maya Plisetskaya, celebra prim-balerină a Teatrului Bolșoi își recompune destinul cu o onestitate tăioasă, transformând paginile într-o experiență senzorială ce pendulează între grația scenei și brutalitatea sistemului sovietic. Formatul tipărit pe care îl avem în față păstrează rigoarea academică a editurii, oferind un text dens, de peste 400 de pagini, care funcționează atât ca document istoric, cât și ca mărturie artistică.

Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Maya Plisetskaya reușește să mențină un ritm narativ alert, descriind fără menajamente execuția tatălui său și exilul mamei în Gulag, evenimente care i-au marcat ascensiunea artistică începută în 1943. Putem afirma că forța cărții rezidă în contrastul dintre sublimul rolurilor interpretate — de la „Lacul Lebedelor” la colaborările avangardiste cu Maurice Béjart — și micimea hărțuirilor birocratice venite din partea oficialilor KGB. Complementar volumului Alla Osipenko de Joel Lobenthal, care explorează rebeliunea unei alte mari balerine împotriva statului, memoriile Mayei oferă o perspectivă mult mai personală și directă asupra supraviețuirii, evidențiind modul în care arta devine un mecanism de rezistență.

Recomandăm această lectură pentru bogăția detaliilor despre personalități precum George Balanchine sau Dmitri Shostakovich, dar și pentru curajul cu care Maya Plisetskaya expune realitățile turneelor internaționale, marcate de lipsuri materiale și supraveghere constantă. Este un portret viu al unei epoci de represiune și destindere culturală, scris de o artistă care a refuzat să fie redusă la tăcere.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780300172478
ISBN-10: 0300172478
Pagini: 470
Ilustrații: 74 b-w illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.69 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press

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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care doresc să înțeleagă sacrificiile din spatele cortinei de fier. Dincolo de istoria baletului, volumul oferă o lecție de reziliență în fața totalitarismului. Veți câștiga o perspectivă unică asupra culturii sovietice, văzută prin ochii unei femei care a transformat suferința personală în artă universală. Este o resursă esențială pentru pasionații de muzică clasică, istorie și biografii puternice.

Despre autor

Maya Plisetskaya (1925–2015) este recunoscută la nivel mondial drept una dintre cele mai mari balerine ale tuturor timpurilor. Cu o carieră legată ombilical de Teatrul Bolșoi din Moscova, ea a redefinit standardele dansului clasic prin tehnica sa fenomenală și expresivitatea dramatică. În ciuda originii sale din „familie de dușmani ai poporului”, a reușit să devină un simbol cultural global, colaborând cu cei mai importanți coregrafi ai secolului XX. Recunoscută pentru longevitatea sa scenică și spiritul independent, Plisetskaya a rămas o figură emblematică a curajului artistic în fața opresiunii politice.

Descriere scurtă

Maya Plisetskaya, one of the world’s foremost dancers, rose to become a prima ballerina of Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet after an early life filled with tragedy and loss. In this spirited memoir, Plisetskaya reflects on her personal and professional odyssey, presenting a unique view of the life of a Soviet artist during the troubled period from the late 1930s to the 1990s.
 
Plisetskaya recounts the execution of her father in the Great Terror and her mother’s exile to the Gulag. She describes her admission to the Bolshoi in 1943, the roles she performed there, and the endless petty harassments she endured, from both envious colleagues and Party officials. Refused permission for six years to tour with the company, Plisetskaya eventually performed all over the world, working with such noted choreographers as Roland Petit and Maurice Béjart. She recounts the tumultuous events she lived through and the fascinating people she met—among them the legendary ballet teacher Agrippina Vaganova, George Balanchine, Frank Sinatra, Rudolf Nureyev, and Dmitri Shostakovich. And she provides fascinating details about testy cocktail-party encounters with Khrushchev, tours abroad when her meager per diem allowance brought her close to starvation, and KGB plots to capitalize on her friendship with Robert Kennedy. Gifted, courageous, and brutally honest, Plisetskaya brilliantly illuminates the world of Soviet ballet during an era that encompasses both repression and cultural détente.

Recenzii

“A compelling story about perseverance, hardship, craftiness and, ultimately, a kind of seething acceptance of the system that virtually imprisoned her, even as she found that she couldn’t live without it.”—Sarah Kaufman, Washington Post

“Like the swans she danced so often—800 performances of ‘Swan Lake’ and unnumbered renderings of the Dying Swan—Maya Plisetskaya, one of the great ballerinas of the last century, mingled beauty and fierceness. . . . She has much to be angry about and, as the Bolshoi’s prima ballerina assoluta for decades and celebrated worldwide, quite a bit to be grateful for. . . . The Plisetskaya memoir is a moving success. Here is the woman, I proclaims, and we see her—not entirely polished but overwhelming—as if she were dancing.”—Richard Eder, New York Times

“The fascinating story of how this artist of implacable will confronted and defied the Soviet regime—and eventually had her way. . . . I, Maya Plisetskaya has the virtues of candor and directness, and it has a real story to tell.”—Robert Gottlieb, Los Angeles Times Book Review

“A riveting account of pursuing artistic excellence under Soviet oppression. . . . Plisetskaya doesn’t just tell an incredible story. She also lays bare the hard work and uncertainty involved in putting it all in a book. . . . Reading this memoir feels like listening to a wonderfully strong-willed friend.”—Boston Globe

“Almost everything about Plisetskaya, now 76, seemed larger than life. And as her wonderfully intimate and detailed new autobiography reveals, that is the result of both her innately bold, born-to-be-a-diva personality, and of the often perilous Soviet political environment in which she forged her career. . . . This is a fascinating memoir, steeped in ambivalence.”—Chicago Sun-Times

“I, Maya Plisetskaya isa memoir of the Terror, the Gulag and the very fertile Soviet arts, by the athletic prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet.”—Washington Post Book World

“[A]n autobiography that is also a searing indictment of Soviet Russia, of communism and of the blind naiveté with which the Isadoras of this world have often approached her country. . . . Plisetskaya’s memoirs invariably describe a life in dance. But the book’s biggest value lies in being much more than that. I, Maya is social history written by a dancer who transcends the mute language of her art to tell a universal story of suffering and endurance. The thud of irony continually disrupts the mellifluous strains of Tchaikovsky that sounds in the background of a career that spanned 50 years. . . . [A] deliciously subversive book.”—Deirdre Kelly, Toronto Globe & Mail

“Plisetskaya . . . has danced all over the world, with innumerable companies and for innumerable choreographers. And she has known ‘everyone’. She writes frankly and freely, holds strong opinions, and is never dull. The chronicle also gives insight, from her point of view, of a Soviet artist dancing through many troubled times.”—Dancing Times

“[I]nspiring. . . . Her story is frank, revealing, and never dull.”—Dance Magazine

“Now we have the English translation of Plisetskaya’s autobiography, and it is an enormously important document, both for the history of ballet and for the study of art under communism. . . . Her voice is strong, unedited, and impassioned. The book is a testimony as much as a life story. . . . It is a brave book, too, not so much for what it tells about the indignities of life under communism, but for its blind, honest style.”—Jackson Lears, New Republic

“Plisetskaya’s passionate characterizations reflected the new bravura style that became the trademark of the Bolshoi. These memoirs help explain some of the paradoxes in her life and also shed light on the Soviet Union’s relationship with its artists. Recommended for all who are fascinated with ballet, history, and Russia.”—Choice

Selected as one of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2001 by the Los Angeles Times Book Review


Notă biografică

Maya Plisetskaya (1925–2015), one of the world’s foremost dancers, performed with Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet and later traveled the world performing and lecturing. At the Bolshoi’s gala celebrating her 75th birthday, President Vladimir Putin presented her with Russia’s highest civilian honor, the medal for service to the Russian state, second degree. Tim Scholl is professor of Russian language and literature at Oberlin College. Antonina W. Bouis is the prize-winning translator of more than fifty books, including fiction, nonfiction, and memoirs by such figures as Andrei Sakharov, Elena Bonner, and Dmitri Shostakovich.