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m_elisabth 's review for:
De Profundis and Other Writings
by Oscar Wilde
“love is able to read the writing on the remotest star”
the pain, the passion and the pure creativity that wilde poured into this beautiful break-up letter to his former lover(?) is unmatched
i loved the rawness in which wilde wrote this and how we see the complexity of love-
“when suddenly, unbidden, unwelcome, and under circumstances fatal to my happiness, you returned”
to then
“If bitter necessity, or prudence, to me more bitter still, had prevented my being near you, and robbed me of the joy of your presence, though seen through iron bars and in a shape of shame, I would have written to you in season and out of season in the hope that some mere phrase, some single word, some broken echo even, of love might reach you.”
the intensity of these words made me feel truly heartbroken and i was on the verge of tears numerous times throughout this letter. this hits you hard. wilde also dips into philosophy in some parts which i also thoroughly enjoyed!
i did however get lost in the pages about jesus but a masterpiece nonetheless!!
“And if I then am not ashamed of my punishment, as I hope not to be, I shall be able to think, and walk, and live with freedom”
the pain, the passion and the pure creativity that wilde poured into this beautiful break-up letter to his former lover(?) is unmatched
i loved the rawness in which wilde wrote this and how we see the complexity of love-
“when suddenly, unbidden, unwelcome, and under circumstances fatal to my happiness, you returned”
to then
“If bitter necessity, or prudence, to me more bitter still, had prevented my being near you, and robbed me of the joy of your presence, though seen through iron bars and in a shape of shame, I would have written to you in season and out of season in the hope that some mere phrase, some single word, some broken echo even, of love might reach you.”
the intensity of these words made me feel truly heartbroken and i was on the verge of tears numerous times throughout this letter. this hits you hard. wilde also dips into philosophy in some parts which i also thoroughly enjoyed!
i did however get lost in the pages about jesus but a masterpiece nonetheless!!
“And if I then am not ashamed of my punishment, as I hope not to be, I shall be able to think, and walk, and live with freedom”