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[edit] Oscar Wilde Translation

This is a faithful translation of the Dutch article. I have made no attempt to upgrade the prose to the level of an article I would submit. All colloquialisms are those of the original author. So are the inconsistencies of style. This is a FA on the Dutch Wikipedia. Go Figure. Jeffpw 21:29, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

By the way, I just looked at the Dutch article's talk page, and this was translated from the English Wiki on March 5, 2003. Hasn't been updated much since that time. Jeffpw 21:05, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wills Wilde (Dublin, 16 October 1854 – Paris, 30 November 1900) was a playwright, novelist, poet and aesthete who was originally from Ireland. He lived in England for a great deal of his life.

BIOGRAPHY

His parents were Sir William and lady Jane Wilde. His mother, Jane Francesca Elgee, achieved recognition in Ireland as a writer under the pseudonym Speranza. She also worked as a translator. His father was a prominent eye and ear surgeon, and wrote books about archeology and folklore. His ancestors were of Dutch origin and Wilde is a bastardization of "De Wilde".

Oscar studied classical languages at Trinity College in Dublin from 1971 to 1974. Thereafter he attended Magdalen College in Oxford (1874 - 1878), and in 1878, while still a student there, won the Newdigate Prize for his poem, Ravenna.

During his studies at Oxford, he became known for his role in the aesthetic and decadent movement. He let his hair grow, displayed public disdain for "manly" sports, and decorated his room with peacock feathers, lilies, sunflowers, Chinese porcelain and other objets d’art. He was very impressed by the authors John Ruskin and Walter Pater, who made art the center of life. Oscar Wilde rapidly became an advocate of the aesthetic principle 'art for the sake of art". This principle of Théophile Gautier, new at the time, was made prominent by James McNiel Whistler.

In 1879, Wilde began to give lessons in aesthetic values in London. He also have readings in the U.S. and Canada, where he was pummeled by the critics.In Oxford, his behavior cost him a dunking in the Cherwell, and his room was trashed., but the cult spread until, at its height, the tastes, costumes and aestheticism became a generally recognized attitude in certain circles . "The Wasp", a San Francisco newspaper, published a cartoon of Wilde, and the aesthetic movement was caricatured in the opera Patience (1881) by Gilbert and Sullivan.

The aesthetic movement was also strongly seen in the work of William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and had a lasting influence on the English decorative arts. As the leading man in this movement, Oscar Wilde became one of the more well known people of his generation. Besides the caricature, his affected paradoxes and sharp, funny remarks were often quoted.

In 1882 he gave a reading tour of the United States and then returned to Great Britain, where he worked as a critic for the Pall Mall Gazette in the years 1887 to 1889. Wilde also wrote several longer pieces and published them together with art criticism in a book entitled Intentions 1891.

Thereafter he became editor of Woman's World. In the same period he released his most important fairy tale, The Happy Prince and Other Tales 1888. Three years later his only novel, The Picture Of Dorian Gray was published. Critics have always maintained that there was a parallel between the main character of the book and its author. It is a depressing book where the main character remains young, beautiful and healthy in spite of his depravity and bad lifestyle, while a portrait of himself stored in a closet degenerates and ages.

He married Constance Lloyd in 1884 and had two sons, Cyril (1885) and Vyvyan (1886).

In 1881 he had a selection of his poems published, but they were only admired by a small circle. After his fairy tales in 1888, he published another collection, The House of Pomegranates (1892), that according to the author himself was " intended neither for the British child nor the British public."

In 1891 Wilde met Lord Alfred Douglas, the son of the Marquis of Queensbury. The men were crazy about each other, in spite of the fact that Wilde was married. Douglas' father wanted to end the relationship. He accused Wilde of Sodomy, to which Wilde objected and filed a lawsuit for slander against the Marquis. The court sided with the Marquis. Though Wilde had the chance to flee to France, he chose not to. Oscar Wilde was arrested and imprisoned for two years. His wife divorced him and changed her and her son's names to "Holland". During his prison term Wilde wrote a long letter to Douglas, that was published after his death as De Profundis.

After his imprisonment his health was ruined, and Wilde lived the rest of his life in poverty in France, where he succumbed to meningitis at age 46. Oscar Wilde is buried at the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris. His gravestone was created by Jacob Epstein.

WORK

Many people of his era perceived an unpleasant suggestive undertone in much of his work and his general demeanor, which led to a negative opinion of him. His book The Picture Of Dorian Gray was more renowned for its suggestiveness than its literary merit.

Wilde is actually best known for his plays. A new play was produced almost yearly from 1892 on. Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) was followed by A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895) an The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), his masterpiece, where he made fun of the aristocracy..

The dialogue is littered with quotable oneliners that are still quoted (for example:"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about" and "I'm glad to hear you smoke. A man should always have an occupation of some kind"). Wilde also thought of these aphorisms to attract attention. Sometimes he sent them as telegrams to the Times.

Several of his plays are still produced, namely The Importance Of Being Earnest and An Ideal Husband. He was an extremely popular playwright for ten years, who always had one play or another in production, through which his popularity was only surpassed by George Bernard Shaw.

His life has been filmed several times: The Trials Of Oscar Wilde (1960) starring Peter Finch; and Wilde (1997) with Stephen Fry in the title role. The actor Michael Gambon also played him in a television series.

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