A Writer Trapped by His Own Words. An Exhibition Catalogue
Jörg W. Rademacher
Oscar Wilde
It was but for five years that Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was able to enjoy his fame as a well-known and partly popular man of letters. Yet he began this phase in the summer of 1890 by joining a press debate characterized by a nasty atmosphere in parts on both sides following the publication of his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine. This catalogue of an exhibition that has been shown in Vienna, Munich, Berlin, Dortmund, Ansbach and Passau retraces this phase of Wilde’s existence step by step. Jörg W. Rademacher, author of a biography on Wilde and translator, had conceived the exhibition to highlight the close connection between life and work in all its tragic impact up to his being sentenced to two years in gaol with hard labour for gross indecency in May 1895.
Bilingual edition.
Published in 2017
Text and translation: Jörg W. Rademacher, Foreword: Stephan Karschay; Afterword: Wolfgang Streit: The Ethics of Translation: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Elsinor
Softcover
128 pp
ISBN 978-3-939483-37-3
17,00 Euro [D]
15 x 21,3 cm