by Oscar Wilde · Siruela · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478445189
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«La decadencia de la mentira» is Oscar Wilde's essay on aesthetic criticism, published by Siruela in paperback (88 pages, in Spanish).
In this essay, originally published in 1889, Wilde criticizes the realist art of his time and its claim to reflect life with exactitude. He argues that art should not imitate reality but express itself, and defends creative lying as the true purpose of all artistic work.
It is part of Siruela's Biblioteca de Ensayo / Serie menor collection, as volume 10. Translated by María Luisa Balseiro. The work was originally published in 1889.
For readers interested in art theory, aesthetics and literary criticism, as well as in Oscar Wilde's essayistic work.
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.
