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Bezig met laden... Bosie: The Man, The Poet, The Lover of Oscar Wildedoor Douglas Murray
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A fairly dry treatment of a well known story which focuses on events after The Trial of Oscar Wilde. The author draws the story into concentrating on the sad life of Alfred, Lord Douglas (Bosie), a man of obvious talent who was affected until his deathbed by the prejudices of English society at all levels. His own shortcomings, failed marriage, failed friendships, and repudiation of his homosexual self all contributed to a sense of frustration at what he saw as other people's repudiation of his own considerable talent. His one solace was the Catholic Church. A sad and cautionary tale indeed. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Lord Alfred Douglas, known as ‘Bosie’, son of the Marquess of Queensberry, was known as one of the most beautiful young men of his generation. Aged twenty-one he met and became the lover and subsequent obsession of Oscar Wilde. Their relationship caused a scandal in 1895 when Wilde took Queensberry, Douglas’s aggressive father, to court for libel. When the details of their relationship were aired in court, Wilde was convicted of gross indecency and later imprisoned. Wilde’s story is well known, but this is the first book to tell it fully from Douglas’s perspective. Written, and originally published in 2000, with access to never-before-seen papers , Bosie explores the contradictions, tensions and turmoils of Douglas’s life with Wilde and beyond as a poet, husband and father. This compelling biography uncovers the life of one of the most notorious figures in literary history, and its course from gilded beautiful youth to semi-reclusive outcast, at the time of Douglas’s death in 1945. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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I'm correct in saying that Murray was still an undergraduate when he wrote this intriguing
book.
I can't really take Wilde's literary output, but he was a fascinating man, and the 'fin-de-siecle'
world in which he moved, and the people who inhabited it with him are all fascinating. This
biography is intended (I think) to be sympathetic to Douglas, but I'm afraid that for me he
was a poisonous little man, a second rate poet, and a self-opinionated, selfish wrecker of
the life of Oscar Wilde (which is not to say that Wilde wasn't equally self-opinionated and
self-destructive). This book shines a light on this shadowy world which is both illuminating
and fascinating.
I think it was said of Byron that he was' mad, bad and dangerous to know'.
Seems to me that Douglas was 'mad, bad, sad and dangerous to know'. ( )