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Wilde, Oscar: Oscar Wilde. Les mots et les songes.(Brief article)(Book review)

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From: Biography
Date: 20060622
Author:Jordis, Christine

Wilde, Oscar Oscar Wilde. Les mots et les songes. Pascal Aquien. Paris: Ed. Aden, 2006. 563 pp. Euro35.

The character of Oscar Wilde still haunts us (see the number of books written on him). After Richard Ellman's epoch-making biography, Pascal Aquien's offers a different interpretation: not the languid ephebe, but a being full of energy, with a certain sense of business, concerned with money (he never had much); not the bashful lover in front of the beautiful but terrible Lord Douglas, but a man with a profuse affective and sexual life. Also a man perpetually on show, ...

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