Synopsis
"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."
After William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) is the most quoted of writers. His epigrams turned conventions upside down; his personality defined an era. One hundred years after Wilde's death, the enduring fascination with his life remains as constant as ever: his rise to prominence as an unparalleled playwright, his ego-driven fall from grace, and the trial, played out in the full glare of the public's gaze.
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
"Oscar Wilde A Certain Genius" is a biography for a new generation of readers: portraying Wilde as neither the martyr, nor the self-destructive fop, Belford brings new understanding to his life in all its complexity, genius and humanity.
"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that's not being talked about."
After William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) is the most quoted of writers. His epigrams turned conventions upside down; his personality defined an era. One hundred years after Wilde's death, the enduring fascination with his life remains as constant as ever: his rise to prominence as an unparalleled playwright, his ego-driven fall from grace, and the trial, played out in the full glare of the public's gaze.
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
"Oscar Wilde A Certain Genius" is a biography for a new generation of readers: portraying Wilde as neither the martyr, nor the self-destructive fop, Belford brings new understanding to his life in all its complexity, genius and humanity.
"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that's not being talked about."
Titre original : Oscar Wilde: A Certain Genius (2000)
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2000 Editions Bloomsbury
383 pages
00 2001
ISBN : 0747553254
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Publiée en 2000 à l'occasion du centenaire de la mort d'Oscar Wilde, cette biographie est loin d'être indispensable. Certaines thèses avancées par la biographe peinent franchement à convaincre et son ouvrage se résume trop souvent à chroniquer la vie quotidienne de Wilde plutôt qu'à apporter un éclairage psychologique sur l'écrivain. Un portrait trop superficiel selon moi.