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Oscar Wilde

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OSCAR WILDE 

 

 

 

                                                                                     

 

 

 

 

 

     Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in 16 October, 1854 in the beatiful city of Dublin, Ireland. Wilde is a important dramaturg of UK.

made several literary activities: published a book of poems. He worked as a journalist in London. Wilde became one of the greatest personalities of his time in England.

Books:

Oscar Wilde held multiple jobs that remain in the legacy of literary history and English like:

  • Poems (1881)
  • The Happy Prince and Other Stories (1888) 
  • Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories (1891)
  • An Ideal Husband (1898)
  • The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1899)

 

     Oscar Wilde son of a doctor named William Wilde and a famous writer for his time called Joana Elgee, together giving an adequate training as well giving your child the opportunity to study at Portora Royal School of Euniskillen, at Trinity College Dublin.    

     For later, after having completed their studies and start university, hangs was full of both study days as days of travel to other countries.
     In one of those trips will be located in the United States to perform her aesthetic philosophy, making way for what was once a defense of art for art, based on individualism, putting against the realism required to achieve freedom of expression or freedom of nature, to the later and hangs today we call dandyism.  

 




     He married Constance Lloyd which gave birth to 2 children.Among his daily activities we have wrote for a magazine called Woman's World which published his book of short stories calledclear that the writer was based on misunderstanding their happiness.

     After that popularity does not diminish or increase only where he had been held until after it decides to publish their dialogues called "Salome" and "The Importance of Being Earnest" implying that they were full of irony, the Marquis de Queenberry No more with which to defend the writer lead him to prison for 2 years, which made the people begged that would reduce prison time for this, whose pleas were ignored by the government.

     Following this her 2 children choose not to bear the surname of his father "Wilde" to avoid problems later on with their lives.

     On his release, Wilde decided to write "Ballad of Reading Gaol" thus giving to know all that lost in the wake of going to jail, that his glory years had been wasted to finish his life as a writer in this way .

     Emigrated to Paris, changing name and last name to move to Paris without any problem now calling themselves "Sebastian Melmoth"

 

 

 

 

 

      Oscar Wilde died of cerebral meningitis on 30 November 1900 in Paris, France. he had 46 years old when he died.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Phrases:

 

  • ''There are only two rules for writing: to have something to say and say it''
  • ''The women have been made ​​to be loved, not to be understood''.
  • ''If you want to know what a woman really say, look at it, do not listen.''
  • ''Talk a lot about the beauty of certainty as if they ignored the subtle beauty of doubt. Believe is very monotonous, the doubt is fascinating.''

 

NEWS ABOUT OSCAR WILDE:

- Goverment of Jalisco (Mexico) promotes the literature buying a million of books of the most prominent authors like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Julio Cortazar and Oscar Wilde.

 

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