Oscar Wilde
Paperback | Pages: 188 pages Rating: 4.19 | 10485 Users | 884 Reviews
Define Books During De Profundis
| Original Title: | De Profundis |
| Edition Language: | Spanish |
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De Profundis (Latin: "from the depths") is a 50,000 word letter written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol, to Lord Alfred Douglas, his lover. Wilde wrote the letter between January and March 1897; he was not allowed to send it, but took it with him upon release. In it he repudiates Lord Alfred for what Wilde finally sees as his arrogance and vanity; he had not forgotten Douglas's remark, when he was ill, "When you are not on your pedestal you are not interesting." He also felt redemption and fulfillment in his ordeal, realizing that his hardship had filled the soul with the fruit of experience, however bitter it tasted at the time.Describe Of Books De Profundis
| Title | : | De Profundis |
| Author | : | Oscar Wilde |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 188 pages |
| Published | : | September 12th 1993 by Fontamara (first published February 1905) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Nonfiction. Biography. LGBT. Autobiography. Memoir. Literature. Philosophy |
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Ratings: 4.19 From 10485 Users | 884 ReviewsJudge Of Books De Profundis
At the beginning of 2016, I read an abridged version of De Profundis. Alongside with The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Lord Arthur Saviles Crime, it was one of the first things I read by Oscar Wilde and that made me utterly and irrevocably fall in love with him. After finishing the abridged version, I dived into an extensive research on Oscar and uncovered the injustices he had to face during his lifetime. So, the abridged version of this letter solidified him as mySuch a beautiful, open and compasive letter. 💕
I never would have expected a treatise on the meaning of suffering and sorrow, the path to the soul, and a meditation upon Christ as the first true artist/poet from a man imprisoned for homosexuality. It was a pleasure to read this "letter" that emerged out of Oscar Wilde's two year imprisonment for "illicit behavior". How one of his life of leisure, wealth, and decadence could find the path to his soul and the beauty in suffering and the value of nature while imprisoned in a jail cell for two
Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world. I cannot conceive of any other explanation. I am convinced that there is no other, and that if the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. Pleasure for the beautiful body, but pain
Wilde at the end of his life after suffering from public humiliation and hard labor in prison writes on what is left when the world spurns you. Suffering is more of a guide in life to what is valuable in us than pleasure. Pleasure can wear a mask. Pain and suffering never do. Coming to terms with suffering makes us focus on what is that kernel that can't be destroyed and represents a kind of wisdom. I can imagine that Wilde suffered unjustly for his sensual proclivities but he manages to
I am giving this a lower rating than it technically deserves, due to some of my personal beliefs that are important enough to me that I am unwilling to ignore them in a review where they are so entirely relevant to the book at hand. As a piece of writing, it is several synonyms for luscious and tragically chest-stabby. However, underneath the primary and quite applicable to post-3-decades-on-Earth-me themes of looking back on many a wasted year and regretting a lot of the selfish and
Two magnificent texts by Oscar Wilde, particularly poignant. The Ballad of Reading Gaol, the same place where Wilde was imprisoned, tells the true story and drama of a soldier sentenced for having murdered his wife. De Profundis is a long letter addressed to Lord Douglas by Oscar Wilde who reproaches him for having abandoned him to his fate. Oscar Wilde, who had accustomed us to very beautiful reflections on life and his aesthetics, gives us here a sort of last very moving testimony that will be
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