De Profundis and other Writings -

Oscar Wilde

Penquin UK.

1986

252 páginas

8h 24m

ISBN-13: 9780140430899

'I have nothing to declare,' Wilde once told an American customs official, 'except my genius.' A good part of that genius is evident in the essays and poems included in this volume. There is the intellectual genius of The Soul of Man under Socialism, in which he clearly foresaw the dangers of economic bureaucracy and state-worship - for Wilde socialism meant liberation and individuality, not enslavement. Then there is the emotional genius of 'De Profundis', the long, introspective and often hostile letter he addressed to Lord Alfred Douglas from prison. And there is the poetical genius of The Ballad of Reading Gaol, in which Wilde's generous nature could movingly express for another's misery the sorrow he found it hard to express for his own. This collection contains, too, many examples of that humorous and epigrammic genius which captured the London theatre and which, by suddenly casting light from an unexpected angle, widened the bounds of truth.

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Oscar Wilde é gigante

Ler Di Profundis é entrar na mente geniosa de um escritor feito de palavras e arte que foi preso injustamente. As palavras mais simples soam como poesia nas mãos do Oscar Wilde e eu amo isso. Não entendo muito de inglês, oq deixou a leitura BEM complicada, mas mesmo assim foi uma leitura que valeu a pena.
"Between my art and the world there is now a wide gulf, but between art and myself there is none. I hope at least that there is none."