by Oscar Wilde · Insel, Frankfurt · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783458318071
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«Salome» is the collected volume of dramas, writings and aphorisms by Oscar Wilde, published by Insel in paperback (250 pages, in German).
The volume brings together the one-act tragedy «Salomé» with other dramas, writings and aphorisms by Oscar Wilde, as well as the poem «The Ballad of Reading Gaol». Set at the court of Herod, the play explores desire, lust and death; the collection reflects its author's aestheticism and the literary atmosphere of the fin de siècle.
Published in 1975; it corresponds to number 107 of the Insel Taschenbuch collection. Translation by Christine Hoeppener and illustrations by Marcus Behmer.
Suitable for students and readers of literature and theatre, and for those who admire Oscar Wilde and British fin-de-siècle aestheticism.
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.
