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A review by documentno_is
De Profundis by Oscar Wilde
3.0
Pretty hard to get through and not certain how much I got from it- he often seems to contradict himself in intention.
He supposes Christ as this romantic areligious figure that he isn't, if anything this is probably blasphemous- I don't really care and I do like when he waxes on Christ's thoughts on the the rich leading the path to hell but he starts to lose me in some of his artistic opinions
I prefer the parts when he writes to his personal experience of the betrayal of a vain lover, the terrible conditions of prison, and the trial that landed him there; there is a bittersweet sadness to the coming to terms with his hedonism and fame landing him in prison but not being perhaps able to divorce that from his sexuality is...complex to say the least. The supposed questioning of his former lifestyle is understandable when he has been committed for it but I do enjoy that he focuses on society's illness and their own hypocrisies as evident in landing him there as well.
Overall my opinion of this letter was rather neutral, it was written in a complex situation so I can forgive him a bit for rambling and over-repeating certain points while not elaborating on others but it does ultimately result in something not so fluid to read.
I prefer the parts when he writes to his personal experience of the betrayal of a vain lover, the terrible conditions of prison, and the trial that landed him there; there is a bittersweet sadness to the coming to terms with his hedonism and fame landing him in prison but not being perhaps able to divorce that from his sexuality is...complex to say the least. The supposed questioning of his former lifestyle is understandable when he has been committed for it but I do enjoy that he focuses on society's illness and their own hypocrisies as evident in landing him there as well.
Overall my opinion of this letter was rather neutral, it was written in a complex situation so I can forgive him a bit for rambling and over-repeating certain points while not elaborating on others but it does ultimately result in something not so fluid to read.