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Onnellinen prinssi ja muita tarinoita
Oscar Wilde oli irlantilainen näytelmä- ja romaanikirjailija ja runoilija. Hän myös kirjoitti ja julkaisi yhdeksän satua. Jaana Kaparin käännös Onnellinen prinssi ja muita tarinoita kokoaa nämä sadut ensimmäistä kertaa suomeksi yksiin kansiin.
Onnellinen prinssi ja muita tarinoita monipuolistaa Oscar Wilden kirjailijakuvaa Suomessa, ja näyttää kirjailijan vähemmän tunnetun, lämpöisen ja haikean puolen. Jaana Kaparin oivaltava ja maaginen käännös loihtii esiin näiden ainutlaatuisten satujen lohdullisen tunnelman, jossa etsitään ja löydetään keinoja selvitä maailman murheiden keskellä.
Onnellinen prinssi ja muita tarinoita monipuolistaa Oscar Wilden kirjailijakuvaa Suomessa, ja näyttää kirjailijan vähemmän tunnetun, lämpöisen ja haikean puolen. Jaana Kaparin oivaltava ja maaginen käännös loihtii esiin näiden ainutlaatuisten satujen lohdullisen tunnelman, jossa etsitään ja löydetään keinoja selvitä maailman murheiden keskellä.
205 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2007
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Oscar Wilde
5,542 books39k 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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November 21, 2014
Todella koskettavia, haikeita ja julmiakin satuja. Oscar Wilden kirjoitus on edelleenkin jumalaista (huomaatteko, kuinka adjektiivini muuttuvat aina vain ylistävämmiksi?) ja satujen lukeminen on yksinkertaisesti nautintoa. Ironiaakaan ei näistä Wilden tyyliin puutu. Suosittelen lämpimästi!
November 22, 2018
Olen aika monta klassikkokirjaa täällä haukkunut, mutta nyt on kerrankin aiheellista sanoa, että tämä klassikko on kestänyt aikaa ja toimii edelleen erinomaisena kirjallisuutena ihan itsessäänkin. Suoraan sanottuna monet tämän kokoelman saduista tuntuvat surullisen ajankohtaisilta edelleenkin näinä myöhäiskapitalistis-uusfeodaalisina aikoina, joiden olisi jo ollut aika jäädä satukirjojen lehdille kuvaukseksi entisistä köyhistä ajoista.
Eniten pidin kokoelman alkupään saduista. Kaksi viimeistä sen sijaan erottuivat muita sekavampina eivätkä yhtä koskettavina, minkä vuoksi kirja menetti viidennen tähtensä.
Eniten pidin kokoelman alkupään saduista. Kaksi viimeistä sen sijaan erottuivat muita sekavampina eivätkä yhtä koskettavina, minkä vuoksi kirja menetti viidennen tähtensä.
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