Conversations with Oscar Wilde. Holland M., Callow S.

A talented playwright, novelist, essayist and poet Oscar Wilde was a brilliant interlocutor, as many of his contemporaries testified, and possessed an inimitable sense of humor, which did not change him even in the most difficult period of his life when he was in prison. Merlin Holland, the grandson and biographer of Wilde, recreates the style of communication of his ingenious grandfather as convincing as if he had actually talked with him.

with the preface of the actor, director and writer Simon Callow, commander of the Order of the British Empire. << /p>

“The life of Oscar Wilde has all the signs of the fireworks: first an excited expectation, then a spectacular show, then a deafening explosion, a fall - and silence. In an inexplicable way, he foresaw this in his fairy tale about a wonderful rocket, which rose from nowhere in the sheave of sparks, exploded, fell to the ground and went out, exclaiming: "I knew that I would make a sensation." (Merlin Holland)