The secret life of the soul. Letters. Wilde O.

“I was a symbol of the art and culture of my century. I understood this at the dawn of my youth, and then made my age understand this, ”wrote Oscar Wilde, one of the most exquisite British writers. A prose writer, a poet, playwright and thinker, he also left a great epistolary heritage. His letters (each of which in itself literary work) immerse the reader into the atmosphere of the intellectual life of London of the late 19th century. Before us unfolds the writer’s life drama, in which there were dizzying ups, success, glory and tragic love, which became for Wilde and inspiration, and the cause of the disaster, which plunged him into the abyss of poverty and shame.