The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde

ISBN: 9780060151874

出版社: HarperCollins

出版年: 1983-06

定价: USD 12.95

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

The novel is written in the form of a diary which Oscar Wilde was writing in Paris in 1900, shortly before his death (the diary is completely fictional). In this diary he looks back at his life, writing, and ruin through trial and jail.

Like most novels by Ackroyd, Last Testament is involved with the rewriting of English literary history, at the same time as it emphasizes the intertextuality of art and writing. It is a novel written in the form of a journal as if by Oscar Wilde himself in the last year of his life as an exile in Paris. Through the mouth of Wilde, Ackroyd goes through the life and works of the English writer, reassesses the value of his work, even traces his literary influences, and re-examines his place in the literary canon.