His discovery byhe impresario Diaghilev, his fruitful collaborations with suchhoreographers as Mikhail Fokine and George Balanchine, and with many of thereat dancers (Nijinsky, Karavina), painters and designers (Bakst, Picasso)f his time are fully described, as well as his many productive relationshipsith such writers as Cocteau, Gide and W.H. Auden.