by Oscar Wilde · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782911188381
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«Le Déclin du mensonge» is Oscar Wilde's essay on art and aesthetics, published by Allia in paperback (80 pages, in French).
In this essay, Oscar Wilde argues that art should not imitate nature or submit to truth: it is life that imitates fiction. The lie, understood as deliberate invention, is the principle of beauty, and Victorian realism is portrayed as a renunciation of imagination. A defence of aestheticism.
The work originally appeared in 1889 under the title The Decay of Lying. This French edition from Allia belongs to the Petite Collection series.
For readers interested in aesthetics, literary criticism and the thought of Oscar Wilde.
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.
