by Oscar Wilde · Plaza y Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401590122
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«La balada de la cárcel de Reading» is Oscar Wilde's poem, published by Plaza y Janés in paperback (64 pages, in Spanish).
The poem stems from Oscar Wilde's experience in prison after his notorious trial and denounces the harshness of the prison system. Throughout its verses it expresses suffering, guilt and the search for redemption, with a compassionate view of prisoners and a harsh critique of the justice of his time.
The original text, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, was published in 1898; this Spanish edition includes a translation by Jesús Munárriz.
For readers of classical poetry, admirers of Oscar Wilde and those seeking a brief, representative work of nineteenth-century English literature.
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.
