Petrushka and the Dancer: The Diaries of John Cowper Powys, 1929-1939
by John Cowper Powys
Category: Authors, English

Day-to-day preoccupations - from the aesthetic to the anatomical - are here, along with reflections on his works in progress (books on philosophy, religion and literature, and five novels including A Glastonbury Romance), encounters with members of his family, and observations of rural life in upstate New York, in his beloved West Country, and in Wales. The entries also chart the complexities of his exceptional intimate life with Phyllis Playter, to form her biography as well as his autobiography.