De Profundis and Other Prison Writings -

Oscar Wilde

Penguin Classics

2013

304 páginas

10h 8m

ISBN-13: 9780140439908

Bankrupt and with his reputation in ruins, Oscar Wilde wrote the astonishing letter “De Profundis” to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, while in prison. Editor Colm Toibin, the acclaimed author of The Blackwater Lightship, The Master, and Brooklyn, describes it as Wilde’s “greatest piece of prose writing.” Also included is “The Ballad of Reading Gaol,” Wilde’s most famous poem and one of the greatest ballads in the English language, as well as other letters Wilde wrote from prison that reveal the true effects of incarceration on the people he met. Based on the Penguin Classics edition of the Complete Letters, this collection features a new introduction, notes, and appendices.

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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."