Fils d'un chirurgien réputé et d'une femme de lettres engagée dans la lutte irlandaise, Oscar Wilde fait de brillantes études à l'Université d'Oxford. Suite à sa rencontre avec John Ruskin, porte-parole du mouvement 'esthète', il adhère à ce courant artistique qui prône la recherche du 'beau', sans préoccupation morale ou sociale.
Rédacteur en chef du magazine 'The Woman's World' , il prend fait et cause pour le féminisme. Installé à Londres, il choque la société mondaine par ses extravagances, son cynisme et ses pièces de théâtre sont souvent interdites de représentation. Mais c'est son roman, 'Le Portrait de Dorian Gray', qui lui assure le succès. A l'heure où l'homosexualité est punie par la loi, la relation passionnée qu'il entretient avec Lord Alfred Douglas le conduit à purger deux années de travaux forcés. A sa sortie, c'est un homme brisé qui rejoint son amant en Italie.
Enterré au Père-Lachaise, Oscar Wilde reste une figure majeure de la littérature dont l'atmosphère singulière continue de provoquer l'admiration.
Nikolay Gogol, the author of the first great Russian novel of the 19th century, Dead Souls, as well as two classic plays and some of the finest short stories written in any language, was a true literary oddity. His peculiar, unhappy life and his uniquely dark comic sensibility have been consistently misunderstood by posterity, with critics fiercely debating his nationality, his religious beliefs, and even his sexuality. What has never been in doubt, however, is his immense literary talent which, while essentially sui generis, provided a template for the absurdist, surreal streak in Russian literature that continues to bear fruit to this day. Along with Alexander Pushkin, he also established a literary pattern for the depiction of St. Petersburg as a city of ambiguity and even monstrosity, life in which proves untenable for many of his long-suffering protagonists. Nikolay Vasilievich Gogol was born in Sorochyntsi, a Ukrainian Cossack village in what is now Ukraine's Poltava Oblast. His family were from the lower ranks of the gentry, his mother of Polish descent and his father a Ukrainian Cossack who wrote poetry and drama in Ukrainian. The family spoke both Ukrainian and Russian at home, and Gogol would later make a conscious choice to pursue a literary career in Russian rather than Ukrainian. He was educated at the Gymnasium of Higher Sciences in Nezhyn, a school founded as part of Alexander I's education reforms.
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7 short stories for your zodiac sign
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Título : 7 short stories that Aquarius will love
EAN : 9783968584256
Editorial : Tacet Books
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