Oscar Wilde
Né à Dublin le 16 octobre 1854, Oscar Wilde s'impose à Londres dans les années 1880 comme l'un des esprits les plus brillants de son époque — essayiste, conteur, romancier et dramaturge, auteur du Portrait de Dorian Gray et des grandes comédies de mœurs qui font la gloire du West End. Condamné en 1895 à deux ans de travaux forcés pour « grossière indécence », il sort de prison brisé et ne produit plus qu'une dernière œuvre, La Ballade de la geôle de Reading, avant de mourir à Paris le 30 novembre 1900.
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Albert Camus & Oscar Wilde
La Ballade de la geôle de Reading
Paris, Falaize, (October 25) 1952.In late autumn 1954, Albert Camus was in Italy at the invitation of the Italian Cultural Association. He had not visited since 1938 and looked forward to “the joy of rediscovering it” (Carnets, III). There he delivered a lecture, repeated on six occasions: L'Artiste et son temps. Camus would take up this text again in…Sold
Oscar Wilde
Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
Paris, A. Savine, 1895.This translation was published four years after the first English-language edition of the revised text.By 1889, Oscar Wilde had tried his hand at poetry, theater, the tale, the short story, journalism and criticism, but never the novel. It was precisely that year that the American publisher J. M. Stoddart, seeking British writers for Lippincott's Monthly…Sold
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