Oscar Wilde graphic novel reimagines author’s life in exile
The Divine Comedy of Oscar Wilde reflects on author’s final years as an exile in Paris
In one of his more prescient observations, made nine years before his death in exile and disgrace, Oscar Wilde noted: “Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.”
Fortunately for Wilde’s smoke-wreathed, absinthe-scented ghost, his latest biographer betrays little more than a deep tenderness for his subject and a tantalising imagination.
Javier de Isusi’s graphic novel, – which won Spain’s national comic prize at the end of October – offers a sepia-tinted recreation of the writer’s final three years in
