Publisher Description
"De Profundis" es una carta larga y profundamente personal escrita por Oscar Wilde mientras cumplía una condena en la cárcel de Reading. Originalmente dirigida a Lord Alfred Douglas, su amante y fuente de inspiración, la carta se convierte en un testimonio emocional y reflexivo sobre la vida, el amor, la redención y la espiritualidad.
La obra se caracteriza por la sinceridad y la introspección de Wilde mientras enfrenta las consecuencias de sus acciones y el duro entorno carcelario. A través de una prosa poética y a veces desgarradora, Wilde explora temas de arrepentimiento, pérdida de la libertad personal y la búsqueda de significado en la adversidad.
Wilde reflexiona sobre su propia vida, su talento artístico y su caída desde las alturas del éxito social y literario hasta el encarcelamiento y el aislamiento. La obra está impregnada de una melancolía profunda y una búsqueda de redención espiritual, mientras Wilde confronta sus demonios internos y busca encontrar un camino hacia la paz interior.
Además de ser un testimonio autobiográfico, "De Profundis" también es un testimonio literario importante que revela la complejidad emocional y la agudeza intelectual de Wilde. Su capacidad para fusionar el dolor personal con la reflexión filosófica y la belleza estilística hacen de esta carta una lectura inquietante y conmovedora.
En resumen, "De Profundis" es una obra notable que ofrece una ventana al alma torturada y la mente brillante de Oscar Wilde durante uno de los períodos más difíciles de su vida. Es tanto una confesión personal como una obra de arte literario que continúa fascinando a los lectores por su profundidad emocional y su valor intelectual.
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About Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was born in Dublin. He won scholarships to both Trinity College, Dublin, and Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1875, he began publishing poetry in literary magazines, and in 1878, he won the coveted Newdigate Prize for English poetry. He had a reputation as a flamboyant wit and man-about-town. After his marriage to Constance Lloyd in 1884, he tried to establish himself as a writer, but with little initial success. However, his three volumes of short fiction, The Happy Prince, Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, and A House of Pomegranates, together with his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, gradually won him a reputation as a modern writer with an original talent. That reputation was confirmed and enhanced by the phenomenal success of his society comedies: Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest, all performed on London’s West End stage between 1892 and 1895. In 1895, he was convicted of engaging in homosexual acts, which were then illegal, and sentenced to two years imprisonment with hard labor. He soon declared bankruptcy, and his property was auctioned off. In 1896, he lost legal custody of his children. When his mother died that same year, his wife Constance visited him at the jail to bring him the news. It was the last time they saw each other. In the years after his release, his health deteriorated. In November 1900, he died in Paris at the age of forty-six.