There are two kinds of works in the world, one is created by the artist with a part of himself, and the other is created by the artist with the whole of himself.
Obviously, Wilde is the latter.
He used to be a gifted and beautiful boy. He showed his talent in reading speed since he was a child. He could intensively read a three-volume novel in half an hour, and he could retell eighty-nine times out of ten. He was first among the top students at Trinity College Dublin before being awarded a full literary scholarship to study literature at Magdalen College in Oxford in 1874. In the Oxford era, he still won the rare double first-class results in the classical literature degree examination and the final examination.
Mentioning Oxford, I suddenly remembered that he had hacked Cambridge: "If you go to Cambridge, congratulations! It is the best Oxford University preparatory school I know".
Although he is known for his "poisonous tongue", the person who came out on top of the "articulate and poisonous tongue" and beat Wilde with his skills was James Whistler, an American painter living in Europe who was 20 years older than him. Since 1880, they have been neighbors and friends. The entire London social circle is updating their outspoken, witty and acerbic topics every day.
At one point, when the newspapers ran out of the two of them and added fuel to their conversation, Wilde wrote to Whistler, "It's ridiculous, when we're together, we don't talk about anything but ourselves." The cocky Whistler wrote back, "No, no, Oscar, you forgot, we didn't talk about anything but me when we were together."
But for Whistler's repeated public attacks, Wilde, who was "slapped directly in the face", was humiliated for ten years before breaking off with him in 1890. If you say "kindness", Wilde can also be worthy of the title that he later teased before his death - "Saint Oscar".
As a teenager, Wilde's literary accomplishments were only on the rise. He settled in London after graduating at the age of 24, and had no major works for 13 years until the "year of miracles" in 1891, when his masterpieces were published. His fame in London society is all about striking outlandish costumes, maverick eccentricities and eloquent eloquence.
Even so, Wilde's life at that time was quite smooth and joyful. Published a book, got married, had two sons, became famous, and flourished!
Until 1892, he met the Marquis' son - Alfred Douglas, namely Bosie Posey.
"There are two tragedies in life. The first is not getting what you want, and the second is getting what you want." - Oscar Wilde
Have you ever loved someone so much that you lost your mind?
Wilde's pursuit and love of beauty naturally also includes a fascination with beautiful appearance. Posey, who is 16 years younger than him, is the "little goblin" in his heart. With just one look, a lifetime was spent.
Only superficial people do not judge by appearances. -- "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
Wilde explores the relationship between evil and beauty in "The Picture of Dorian Gray". Gray is an unusually handsome teenager. When he sees the painter's portrait of himself, he is overwhelmed by his beauty and wants to keep it forever. This perfect face. So he made an oath to the portrait: all the ugliness brought by evil will be borne by the portrait, and I will remain young forever. With this devil deal, Gray keeps hurting other people's feelings, his appearance doesn't change, and the portrait gets ugly day by day. Until one day, when his conscience was stinged, he decided to break the devil's deal - he stabbed the portrait with a knife, the portrait regained its beauty and youth, and he fell to the ground and died, and his face became ugly and old in an instant.
Percy read "The Picture of Dorian Gray" 14 times in a row, and was introduced to see Wilde in 1892, and they quickly developed a relationship. It also changed the life of the "Happy Prince" Wilde, and the tragedy is about to be staged.
Posey has always been regarded as a "beautiful calamity". In fact, I think Wilde's tragic life began in 1886, when Robbie, a 17-year-old Oxford dropout, broke Wilde and opened the door to a new world for him. But in any case, Robbie was the one who loved and protected Wilde with his whole life, and only he and another friend were there before Wilde died. After Wilde's death, Robbie sorted out and followed his wishes, omitting and withholding the references and details of Percy's "de profundis", in order to better protect the reputation of the Wilde family and his two sons. In the end, Robbie was buried in Wilde's tomb, which was considered a complete success.
Short-tempered, arrogant, and spendthrift, Percy quickly drained Wilde's £5,000 fortune. During the two years they were in love, Wilde not only abandoned his family, but also did not write any works. It is precisely because of Percy's naivety and impulsiveness that Wilde went to the court to sue the Marquis (Percy's father) for defamation, and then the situation turned sharply, and finally his reputation was ruined.
During Wilde's two years in prison, Percy disappeared. Even so, Wilde wrote a long "love letter" in prison, "de profundis"—it has a beautiful Chinese translation called "From the Deep", and I called it "to my ex" (after Wilde's death, Robbie Organize and request this love letter to be sealed in the British Museum for 50 years, until the world saw the full version in 1962). In the beginning, Wilde exposed Posey's vain, extravagant and extravagant life like a grudge in "To Your Ex", sharply accusing Posey of lacking culture and occupying his time and experience in artistic creation, and accusing Posey of being heartless and heartless. The pain and hurt he caused got him involved in his family strife, leaving him destitute and imprisoned. Gradually, he changed the topic and tone, saying that the person who destroyed himself was still himself, arrogantly believing that he was a symbol of contemporary art culture, that the hedonistic life before gave him the inspiration for artistic creation, and the current prison life makes him heartbroken. He was humbled, so the ordeal in prison made him stronger inside. At the end of the letter, Wilde also made a request to meet again.
Wilde said, "I can resist anything but temptation." Percy was a forbidden temptation to him.
True love makes him lose his mind; true love makes him humble to dust. The most profound love cannot be explained by reason, and Wilde's madness and recklessness inspired by Percy is a kind of overturning of mediocre life and a kind of fulfillment of aestheticism.
After being released from prison, Wilde chose Percy after all kinds of detours, but even if the two got back together again, it would only be three months.
Wilde, who fled to Paris, has experienced great storms, betrayed by his lover, and been excluded from society, and his beauty is no longer there. Wilde spent the last three years of his life in Paris from 1897 to 1900, and in 1898 he completed and published a collection of poems, Songs of Reading Gaol, as a summary of his life.
His life is poetry, his martyrdom is the way of beauty.
"The infamous Oxford St. Oscar, poet and martyr." - Wilde
Wilde died in France in 1900 and was buried in Lachaise Cemetery. According to his last words, his tombstone was carved in the shape of a gender-neutral sphinx. This stems from one of his poems called "Sphinx".
Shortly before his death, he wanted to give himself a nickname that would make a name for himself, so he proclaimed himself "the notorious Oxford St. Oscar, poet and martyr." -Using his familiar "paradox rhetoric", he like his life style.
In front of Wilde's tombstone in Lachaise Cemetery, under the statue of the Sphinx, there have been roses and lip prints from readers from all over the world. "Paris, je t'aime" ("Paris, I love you") In the story that happened in front of Wilde's tombstone in Lachaise Cemetery, the quarrel and breakup between the heroine and her fiancé stemmed from the fiancé's incomprehension Why do women come to worship Wilde and kiss the tombstone. But fortunately, the emergence of Wilde's soul later allowed the male protagonist to recover his love.
His tombstone is inscribed POET, DRAMATIST, WIT.
He is a wise man who sees through the cards of life.
“Thank you Oscar. I love you and I will always love your work.”
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