by Oscar Wilde · Austral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408310501
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A profound meditation on love, suffering, beauty, and forgiveness. Oscar Wilde achieved success from his beginnings thanks to his brilliant wit, with which he lashed out at Victorian society through his works. Maximum exponent of aestheticism, defender of art for art, cultivated an eccentric and provocative personality that made him the most celebrated and feared author of his time. At the height of his literary career and at the height of his fame, Wilde is publicly accused of sodomy by the Marquess of Queensberry, father of his young lover, Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie). In response to the defamation and instigated by Bosie himself, Wilde undertook a lawsuit that led to his ruin. Defeated in the trial, he was imprisoned in Reading Prison and sentenced to two years of hard labor. During his confinement, Wilde writes De profundis, an extensive epistle addressed to the one who was his lover. A profound meditation on love, suffering, beauty, and forgiveness.
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is widely regarded as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency and for practicing homosexual acts.
