De profundis
By Oscar Wilde
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Il 25 maggio del 1895 Oscar Wilde, drammaturgo ammirato da tutta Londra e amante del giovane Lord Alfred Douglas, viene condannato a due anni di lavori forzati per il reato di sodomia. All’inizio del 1897, distrutto nel corpo e nell’anima, lo scrittore ottenne finalmente, da parte del direttore delle carceri di Reading, il permesso di scrivere. La lunga lettera che scrisse a Douglas, accusandolo di averlo abbandonato, sarà pubblicata solo in parte, cinque anni dopo la sua morte, con il titolo De profundis (letteralmente, dal profondo [dell’abisso] in lingua latina). Meditazione autobiografica, testimonianza della sua evoluzione spirituale, e meditazione esistenziale sull’arte e sul dolore, De profundis è anche uno degli scritti più belli e intensi sulla passione. La presente edizione contiene, in aggiunta, la prefazione dell’editore milanese Delle Alpi e le lettere che Wilde scrisse dal carcere all’amico ed erede letterario Robert Ross.
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He studied at Trinity College Dublin and then at Magdalen College Oxford where he started the cult of 'Aestheticism', which involves making an art of life. Following his marriage to Constance Lloyd in 1884, he published several books of stories ostensibly for children and one novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). Wilde's first success as a playwright was with Lady Windemere's Fan in 1892. He followed this up with A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, all performed on the London stage between 1892 and 1895. However Wilde's homosexual relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas was exposed by the young man's father, the Marquis of Queensbury. Wilde brought a libel suit against Queensbury but lost and was sentenced to two year's imprisonment. He was released in 1897 and fled to France where he died a broken man in 1900.
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