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| Title | : | De Profundis |
| Author | : | Oscar Wilde |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 188 pages |
| Published | : | September 12th 1993 by Fontamara (first published February 1905) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Nonfiction. Biography. LGBT. Autobiography. Memoir. Literature. Philosophy |
Oscar Wilde
Paperback | Pages: 188 pages Rating: 4.19 | 10485 Users | 884 Reviews
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De Profundis (Latin: "from the depths") is a 50,000 word letter written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol, to Lord Alfred Douglas, his lover. Wilde wrote the letter between January and March 1897; he was not allowed to send it, but took it with him upon release. In it he repudiates Lord Alfred for what Wilde finally sees as his arrogance and vanity; he had not forgotten Douglas's remark, when he was ill, "When you are not on your pedestal you are not interesting." He also felt redemption and fulfillment in his ordeal, realizing that his hardship had filled the soul with the fruit of experience, however bitter it tasted at the time.
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| Original Title: | De Profundis |
| Edition Language: | Spanish |
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Ratings: 4.19 From 10485 Users | 884 ReviewsCriticize About Books De Profundis
When first I was put in prison some people advised me to try and forget who I was. It was ruinous advice. It is only by realizing what I am that I have found the comfort of any kind. For me, Oscar Wilde is one of those few authors whose works make you question human behavior, and De Profundis was no different.With every Oscar Wilde read, my love for him has only increased, and I dont think Ill ever read Oscar Wilde and not like it. I dont have much to say except that it was an intense andI'm only 6 pages in and my heart is breaking
I am giving this a lower rating than it technically deserves, due to some of my personal beliefs that are important enough to me that I am unwilling to ignore them in a review where they are so entirely relevant to the book at hand. As a piece of writing, it is several synonyms for luscious and tragically chest-stabby. However, underneath the primary and quite applicable to post-3-decades-on-Earth-me themes of looking back on many a wasted year and regretting a lot of the selfish and
i'm not okay."Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make
It is funny how sometimes books come at you (and when I say you, I mean me), sometimes almost in clusters. It is almost like there really is a God and He has infinite knowledge of the universe and knows just what it is that you need to be thinking about right about now, except He is curiously shy and so He doesnt like to come right out with it and tell you directly whats on His mind. So, instead, He leaves books lying around in places where you are fairly likely to trip over them and then pick
Beautiful, fascinating, poetic, and heartbreaking, Wilde becomes the spectator of his own tragedy in De Profundis and attempts a sort of mystical Confiteor to make sense of the suffering of his soul. When first I was put into prison some people advised me to try and forget who I was. It was ruinous advice. It is only by realizing what I am that I have found comfort of any kind. Now I am advised by others to try on my release to forget that I have ever been in a prison at all. I know that would
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