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Filosofía del vestido
"Tener buen aspecto y estar bien vestido es una necesidad. Tener un propósito en la vida, no"
"La moda es tan solo una forma de fealdad tan absolutamente insoportable que debemos cambiarla cada seis meses."
"La moda es tan solo una forma de fealdad tan absolutamente insoportable que debemos cambiarla cada seis meses."
80 pages, Paperback
Published February 6, 2017
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Oscar Wilde
5,491 books38.8k followersOscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his criminal conviction for gross indecency for homosexual acts.
Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. In his youth, Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, he read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.
Wilde tried his hand at various literary activities: he wrote a play, published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on "The English Renaissance" in art and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he lectured on his American travels and wrote reviews for various periodicals. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). Wilde returned to drama, writing Salome (1891) in French while in Paris, but it was refused a licence for England due to an absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Undiscouraged, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late-Victorian London.
At the height of his fame and success, while An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) were still being performed in London, Wilde issued a civil writ against John Sholto Douglas, the 9th Marquess of Queensberry for criminal libel. The Marquess was the father of Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The libel hearings unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and criminal prosecution for gross indecency with other males. The jury was unable to reach a verdict and so a retrial was ordered. In the second trial Wilde was convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labour, the maximum penalty, and was jailed from 1895 to 1897. During his last year in prison he wrote De Profundis (published posthumously in abridged form in 1905), a long letter that discusses his spiritual journey through his trials and is a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. On the day of his release, he caught the overnight steamer to France, never to return to Britain or Ireland. In France and Italy, he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life.
Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. In his youth, Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, he read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.
Wilde tried his hand at various literary activities: he wrote a play, published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on "The English Renaissance" in art and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he lectured on his American travels and wrote reviews for various periodicals. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). Wilde returned to drama, writing Salome (1891) in French while in Paris, but it was refused a licence for England due to an absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Undiscouraged, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late-Victorian London.
At the height of his fame and success, while An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) were still being performed in London, Wilde issued a civil writ against John Sholto Douglas, the 9th Marquess of Queensberry for criminal libel. The Marquess was the father of Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The libel hearings unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and criminal prosecution for gross indecency with other males. The jury was unable to reach a verdict and so a retrial was ordered. In the second trial Wilde was convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labour, the maximum penalty, and was jailed from 1895 to 1897. During his last year in prison he wrote De Profundis (published posthumously in abridged form in 1905), a long letter that discusses his spiritual journey through his trials and is a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. On the day of his release, he caught the overnight steamer to France, never to return to Britain or Ireland. In France and Italy, he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life.
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August 14, 2023
oscar wilde, te amo 💘💘💘💘
October 20, 2024
increíble como las mujeres llevamos toda la vida sometidas a actos de violencia por culpa de los cánones que estén de moda y muy triste que después de tanto tiempo se pueda leer este libro y ver como las cosas no han cambiado casi nada y como estos métodos de represión a la mujer no han desaparecido, solo se han transformado.
oscar wilde tenía una visión muy avanzada para su época y me ha sorprendido lo bien que se habla de la mujer en esta obra. sin duda estaría aterrorizado de que ahora se hayan sustituido los corsé por el consumo de ozempic.
oscar wilde tenía una visión muy avanzada para su época y me ha sorprendido lo bien que se habla de la mujer en esta obra. sin duda estaría aterrorizado de que ahora se hayan sustituido los corsé por el consumo de ozempic.
July 3, 2024
Qué maravilla constatar que nos vestimos con prejuicios, hoy y en todas las épocas.
November 22, 2025
📚 ME ENCANTÓ ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️:
Que maravilla poder conocer a unos de tus escritores favoritos a través de otra de sus facetas; en este caso, el de editor de moda de Oscar Wilde. No solo escribía bonito sino que pensaba bonito. En este libro se expresa muy bien de las mujeres, un visionario total sobre la moda y el contexto social. Aunque lo único triste es saber que las cosas han cambiado solo un poco para las mujeres o el entorno industrial / capitalista en el que vivimos, este último ha empeorado. Me encantó el último capítulo llamado “Esclavas de la Moda” y considero que una de sus mejores frases en este libro que es una recopilación de su trabajo como editor en la revista “The woman’s world” en USA es la siguiente: “Tener buen aspecto y estar bien vestido es una necesidad. Tener un propósito en la vida, NO”. Ampliamente recomendado para leer✨.
Que maravilla poder conocer a unos de tus escritores favoritos a través de otra de sus facetas; en este caso, el de editor de moda de Oscar Wilde. No solo escribía bonito sino que pensaba bonito. En este libro se expresa muy bien de las mujeres, un visionario total sobre la moda y el contexto social. Aunque lo único triste es saber que las cosas han cambiado solo un poco para las mujeres o el entorno industrial / capitalista en el que vivimos, este último ha empeorado. Me encantó el último capítulo llamado “Esclavas de la Moda” y considero que una de sus mejores frases en este libro que es una recopilación de su trabajo como editor en la revista “The woman’s world” en USA es la siguiente: “Tener buen aspecto y estar bien vestido es una necesidad. Tener un propósito en la vida, NO”. Ampliamente recomendado para leer✨.
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