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Oscar Wilde, a study

by André Gide

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  1. Introductory Materials: Dedication, Wilde Poem, Translator's Note, Translator's Introductory, Tombstone Inscription

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    20:22

  3. Chapter 2

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  4. Chapter 3

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  5. Chapters 4 and 5

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A conversation at Berneval gives André Gide's portrait of Oscar Wilde its personal focus. Living beside the sea in northern France after prison, Wilde speaks about the changes in his life, his wish to write a play, and the kindness of local people. His account moves between artistic ambition and ordinary encounters: lending Dumas novels to customs officers, celebrating with schoolchildren, and finding welcome in the village church.

Gide records these exchanges as a friend listening closely to a writer reconsidering his work and public reputation. Wilde's remarks on Russian fiction and Flaubert make compassion a question of literary method as well as personal experience. The 1905 English edition adds Stuart Mason's introduction, notes, and bibliography, placing the remembered conversations beside an outline of Wilde's education and writing career.

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André Gide

André Gide (1869-1951) was a French author whose fiction, memoirs, and criticism probed conscience, desire, and personal freedom with unusual candor. A founder of the Nouvelle Revue Française, he helped shape modern French letters and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947.

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First published
1902
Reading time
About 70 minutes
Pages
50
Language
English
Genre
Memoir
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