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Oscar Wilde
SUMMARY
1854
Life
1874
Influences
Works
1883
SUMMARY
Oscar Wilde's life
- Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde,
- 16th october 1854 in Dublin,
- father : an “A listed” eye and ear surgeon,
- mother : Lady Wilde, Speranza,
- Portora Royal School
- French, Latin and greek
- Oxford university.
His Life
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- London : famous for his extravagance
- Dandy
At New York Customs, when asked what he had to declare, he replied: "Nothing but my genius! "
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"Bosie," Lord Alfred Douglas
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2 years of hard labouring + prison
After 3 years of pain he dies in Paris on the 30 november 1900.
Dandyisme
- Dandyism is not a fixed aesthetic.
- Elegant and refined
- Fashion and society current
- Modern term : eccentricity,
- Clothing and appearance
- Dandy is arrogant he "plays with the rule" but still respects it.
- "Strange that a pair of silk stockings so much a nation," pretending to be surprised.
DANDY
Influences
- Oxford (1874-1878)
- Personality-changing times.
- Committed to the pursuit of pleasure.
Influences
Professor Walter Pater
Professor Walter Pater
Lady Wilde
Lady Wilde
Works
- Salomé (1883)
- The Happy Prince and Other Stories (1888)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
- Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1891)
- Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
- A Woman of No Importance (1893)
- An Ideal Husband (1895)
- The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Work
Sources
http://salon-litteraire.linternaute.com/fr/oscar-wilde/content/1825516-oscar-wilde-biographie
https://www.biography.com/people/oscar-wilde-9531078
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3565.Oscar_Wilde
http://www.wilde-online.info/oscar-wilde-biography.htm
IN BRIEF
A picture of Dorian Gray
A picture of Dorian Gray
A book is not moral or immoral. It is well or badly written.
Better known for his life than for his work.
He becomes conscious of it, he thinks he destroys the portrait, but he destroys himself.
A woman of no importance
A woman of no importance
Revival of the English theater.
The traditional society is criticized and mocked.
Explores the double standards that existed between men and women.