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| ISBN: | 014043089X (ISBN13: 9780140430899) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Oscar Wilde
Paperback | Pages: 252 pages Rating: 4.21 | 2333 Users | 92 Reviews
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A superb work of prose, this autobiographical essay in epistolary form is also--although Wilde would never call it so--an unconventional moral exhortation and an impressionistic work of Christology. This letter from prison written to Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas--Wilde's young lover and the occasion of his downfall--urges the young lord to face up to his own reckless past behavior and to seek the knowledge of self that can only be gained through suffering. "Shallowness is the only sin." Wilde repeats again and again. "Whatever is realized is right." What Wilde calls "a failure of the imagination" is the moral evil that afflicts Bosie, and it is only by a necessarily painful growth in self-awareness that this young man can become a fully human, completely realized work of art. Some of the most interesting passages here are Wilde's exploration of the nature of Christ. Wilde considers Him the true founder of the Romantic movement, the first authentic individualist, a man who saw each person as unique and who revealed to humankind the profound truth that we must grow through suffering into love.
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| Title | : | De Profundis and Other Writings |
| Author | : | Oscar Wilde |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Penguin Classics |
| Pages | : | Pages: 252 pages |
| Published | : | August 26th 1976 by Penguin Books (first published 1897) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Nonfiction. Writing. Essays. Autobiography. Memoir. Literature. Poetry |
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Ratings: 4.21 From 2333 Users | 92 ReviewsEvaluate Epithetical Books De Profundis and Other Writings
Wildes 50,000-word epistolary jaccuse to former lover Bosie, written from prison, is also a glorious piece of prose artistry and a fascinating essay on art theory, ethics, and speculative Christian theology. Wilde is in turn unbearably pompous and unbearably sympathetic, preaching with real conviction about his own personal genius one moment and then, with equal conviction, about the necessity of humility. In the final paragraph he admits the inconsistencies. Wilde must have known that this"The Soul of Man Under Socialism" is pure genius. Rarely are politics and poetry so beautifully entwined, yet Wilde presents them as inherently so. Two jewels that shone particularly bright in the lattice: "...the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are." "...a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.""The Decay of Lying" is classic
Contains:- The Soul of Man under Socialism - The Decay of Lying- De Profundis- Poems
I'm somewhat flitting between giving this a four or a five-star rating, so although I've currently settled on the former, note that this is subject to change. If I were exclusively assigning the stars to the main work in this group of writings, De Profundis, there would be no doubt in my mind about giving it the highest possible, despite knowledge of context displaying the blatantly obvious story of Wilde's lack of adherence to the principles and moral self-discovery detailed. It's both
De Profundis is a letter he a wrote from jail. Extremely powerful and spiritual.
Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know,better than we feel, nobler than we are: we can see Life as a whole: by which, and by which alone, we can understand others in their real as in their ideal relations. Only what is fine, and finely conceived, can feed Love. But anything can feel hate.I could have held up a mirror to you, and shown you such an image of yourself that you would not recognize it as your own till you found it mimicking back your gestures of horror,
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