by Oscar Wilde · Austral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467046861
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«El crítico como artista / La decadencia de la mentira» is Oscar Wilde's volume of aesthetic essays published by Austral in paperback (160 pages).
Two essays by Oscar Wilde, originally published in Intentions (1891). In «El crítico como artista», Gilbert and Ernest discuss the relationship between art and criticism: for Wilde, creation is born of a critical spirit. In «La decadencia de la mentira», Vivian and Cyril ironically defend aestheticism and «art for art's sake».
Translation by León Mirlas. Published in 2016 in the Austral Básicos collection, Humanities series.
Will appeal to readers of aesthetics and philosophy of art, as well as those wishing to explore Oscar Wilde's essayistic side.
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.
