邓肯自传 - (EPUB全文下载)

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目录
Introductory
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-One
Key Dates in Isadora Duncan’s Life

Introductory
I confess that when it was first proposed to me I had a terror of writing this book.Not that my life has not been more interesting than any novel and more adventurous than any cinema and,if really well written,would not be an epoch-making recital,but there’s the rub—the writing of it!
It has taken me years of struggle,hard work,and research to learn to make one simple gesture,and I know enough about the Art of writing to realise that it would take me again just so many years of concentrated effort to write one simple,beautiful sentence.How often have I contended that although one man might toil to the Equator and have tremendous exploits with lions and tigers,and try to write about it,yet fail,whereas another who never left his verandah,might write of the killing of tigers in their jungles in a way to make his readers feel that he was actually there,until they can suffer his agony and apprehension,smell lions and hear the fearful approach of the rattlesnake.Nothing seems to exist save in the imagination,and all the marvellous things that have happened to me may lose their savour because I do not possess the pen of a Cervantes or even of a Casanova.
Then another thing.How can we write the truth about ourselves?Do we even know it?There is the vision our friends have of us;the vision we have of ourselves;and the vision our lover has of us.Also the vision our enemies have of us.And all these visions are different.I have good reason to know this,because I have had served to me with my morning coffee,newspaper criticisms that declared I was beautiful as a goddess,and that I was a genius,and hardly had I finished smiling contentedly over this,than I picked up the next paper and read that I was without any talent,badly shaped,and a perfect harpy.
I soon gave up reading criticisms of my work.I could not stipulate that I should only be given the good ones,and the bad were too depressing and provocatively ............

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