by Oscar Wilde · Diogenes Verlag AG · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783257214994
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«De profundis» is Oscar Wilde's epistolary essay, published by Diogenes Verlag AG in paperback (223 pages, in German).
Written during Oscar Wilde's imprisonment in Reading, this letter addressed to Lord Alfred Douglas reviews the relationship between the two, the young man's conduct, and the author's acceptance of his own responsibility. The volume is completed with «Die Ballade vom Zuchthaus zu Reading», a poem that portrays the tension of prisoners facing an execution.
German edition bringing together «De profundis» and «Die Ballade vom Zuchthaus zu Reading», with translations by Hedda Soellner and Otto Hauser and an essay by Jorge Luis Borges.
For readers of classics and of Oscar Wilde's work, interested in epistolary literature and in poetic testimony of prison.
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is widely regarded as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency and for practicing homosexual acts.
