Confidences inédites Noureev

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"But what was I going to find on the other side of the fence, here in Europe? I would be alone, but not in the way I liked: it would be total loneliness. This new freedom seemed very dark to me. I knew, however, that this was the only possible choice, because it offered me the hope of building something that corresponded to me, the hope of learning, of observing for myself, of growing. . ". In 1962, when the Cold War reached its peak, the young Russian Rudolf Nureyev dazzled the West with his art and in a few months became a star of international renown. This is the moment that this 25-year-old dancer chooses to publish the testimony of his young years, from his difficult childhood in the USSR to his shattering passage in the West, just a year ago. The former Soviet ballet star of Kirov on the way to becoming a Western superstar is entirely devoted to this text, which will take more than fifty years to be published in France. The whole personality of Nureyev is already there, with this whole and voluntary character, source of melancholy, but also essential asset to dare to transgress the family, political and artistic authority of his time.