Merlin Holland

El idilio entre Oscar Wilde y Lord Alfred Douglas, alias «Bosie», figura con letras de oro en los anales del desorden amatorio. En 1895, el marqués de Queensberry, padre de Bosie, envió al club Albem

Este volumen ofrece una selección explicada y cronológicamente ordenada de las cartas de Oscar Wilde realizada por Merlin Holland, nieto suyo y especialista en su obra, de manera que componen la autobiografia que el nunca escribio. Todo Wilde esta aqui, en la escritura ligera o acerada, en el ingenio o en la desesperanza, en el deseo o en su retractacion. Es la cronica esplendida de una mudanza terrible, y un autentico espejo de la vida y la literatura de uno de los genios del siglo XIX.Oscar Wilde nacio en Dublin en 1854. Desde que en 1890 se estrenara su polemica obra de teatro El retrato de Dorian Gray, seguida de El crimen de lord Arthur Savile y otros cuentos, la fama le acompaño. Sus comedias -El abanico de lady Windermere (1892), Una mujer sin importancia (1893), Un marido ideal (1895), La importancia de llamarse Ernest (1895)- lo convirtieron en toda una personalidad social. Sin embargo, una problematica serie de juicios derivados de sus relaciones homosexuales con el joven lord Alfred Douglas lo llevaria en 1895 a prision, donde escribiria la epistola De Profundis. Murio en un hotel de Paris en 1900.

Imagined by Oscar Wildes own grandson, this fictionalised conversation presents the essential biography of the poet, playwright and gay martyr.Renowned for his endlessly quotable pronouncements, Oscar Wilde cut a dashing figure in late Victorian London ... until his tragic downfall resulting from an ill-judged libel action. We remember him not only for his famous trial and imprisonment, but also for a "devils dictionary" of timeless aphorisms and for the enduring brilliance of plays such as The Importance of Being Earnest. Wildes life resembles his early short story, "The Remarkable Rocket", which, rising from nowhere in a shower of sparks, explodes and falls to earth, exclaiming as it goes out, "I knew I should create a great sensation." Merlin Holland expertly traces the arc of his illustrious ancestors life, from his birth in Dublin in 1854 as Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Wilde, to a brilliant career at Oxford University where his reputation for dandyish wit was first honed, through to his conquest of the drawing rooms and theatres of fashionable London, culminating in disgrace and imprisonment at the hands of the Marquess of Queensberry in the most notorious libel trial in English history. Wilde died in penury and obscurity in 1900, yet his reputation today has never been greater. This engaging and innovative short book features a concise biographical essay on Wildes meteoric career, followed by a Q&A interview based on Wildes own words and Merlin Hollands unrivalled knowledge of his grandfathers life, work and puckish observations. This sparkling biography does full justice to Oscar Wildes writerly genius and irrepressible humanity. It offers readers a renewed appreciation for a man who at times scadalised his era as much as he delights our own.

THE DEFINITIVE STUDY OF OSCAR WILDE S POSTHUMOUS REPUTATION WRITTEN BY WILDE S ONLY GRANDSON Oscar Wilde died in November 1900 exiled in Paris and exhausted by scandal and prison life The details of his life in the limelight are well known what have regularly been ignored are the reverberations of the scandal for decades after his death With pathos humour and his grandfather s signature wit Holland charts the extraordinary afterlife of the legendary writer and thinker and traces the dramatic fluctuations in Wilde s posthumous reputation over the past 125 years A true feat of storytelling and scholarship After Oscar tells the story of Oscar s wife Constance and his sons Cyril and Vyvyan his lovers friends and enemies the afterlife of De Profundis sightings from beyond the grave the fate of the Wilde estate and Oscar s contemporary status as a gay icon The most important work on Wilde in over fifty years After Oscar exposes decades of sensationalist conjecture surrounding the Wilde family and documents a century of homophobia within the British establishment Illuminating and heartbreaking Holland has written a book that will amuse infuriate fascinate and shock Readers beware you re in for a Wilde ride

Document exceptionnel, dans une édition établie par le petit-fils dOscar Wilde, Merlin Holland.Un film en cours dadaptation par Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe avec Alex Lutz, et Charles Berling, et Merlin Holland conseiller scientifique.Le genie de Wilde, qui fait de ce proces un debat sur lamour, lart et la moralite.Ce texte vient completer loeuvre de Wilde au catalogue du Livre de Poche.