De Profundis - Oscar Wilde

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Résumé :
A confession that burns with wit and penitence, De Profundis returns to light as a living conversation with fate itself. Wilde's epistolary confession unfolds in a voice both intimate and electrifying, a Victorian era prose that resonates with the ache and ardour of late nineteenth century life. This edition by Alpha Editions offers more than a reprint: it restores the book's rare tone for today's readers, inviting casual readers and classic-literature collectors alike into a texture of contrition, art, and intensity. The prose moves between the sharp clarity of prison memoir tone and the subtler music of Wilde's essays, poetry, and plays, revealing a mind haunted by suffering and redemption. It is a work of dramatic literature fans, students and scholars, and anyone drawn to deep questions of art and morality. Historically, De Profundis stands as a landmark document from Victorian London England, a candid, enduring witness to guilt, grace, and resilience. Its enduring appeal lies in how a master of language invites readers to observe conscience under pressure, to witness confession and transformation as a cultural act. Alpha Editions' edition is a curated invitation to revisit a cultural treasure, restored for today's world and for future generations to study, reverence, and revisit again....

Biographie:
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish Dublin intellectuals. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university, Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new English Renaissance in Art and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversation, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day.