Do you want to know the greatest tragedy of my life? I put all my genius into my life; only talent

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• Do you want to know the greatest tragedy of my
  life? I put all my genius into my life only
  talent into my works.
• Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde as the precursor of modernism
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Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Wilde(1856-1900)

• An important figure of the European decadence
• Aesthete, strange cloths and behavior
• Numerous scandals
• Love affair with Alfred Bosie Douglas
• Fairy-tails , The picture of Dorian Gray

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Precursor of modernism
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Major requisite. Biography

• Mother exaltation, the atmosphere of poetry,
  art, freedom
• Good education (Trinity College, Oxford)
• Happy family life, early fame

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Happy family life

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• Wilde (1997)

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Artistic method (3 whales)
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Philosophic ideas

• Reasons of Wildes behavior and actions
• Led to epatage and homosexuality
• Certain philosophic idea certain features of
  behavior
• Connected with the literary movements

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EPATAGE
Straggle against the Victorian society
Theory of beauty
Aestheticism
Decadence
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Homosexuality
Homosexuality
Decadence
Pure art

• Alfred Bosie Douglas

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Religion (the Bible)
A theatre and symbols of Maurice Maeterlinck

• The antique Greece

The doubles of Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann,
Honorй de Balzac
Oscar Wild
Pre-Raphaelitism
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Wilde and the Pre-Raphaelites

• The conception of pure art (later aestheticism)
• Against the Victorian moral philosophy
• Sexual beauty, colorful descriptions
• Scandalous love affaires
• John Ruskin

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Albert Joseph Moore. The dreams.
The picture of Dorian Gray
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Oscar Wild and future
Philosophy and life
Futurists

• Intellectual
• theatre

• Russian
• Silver Age

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Wilde looks like a person of the XX century.
David Burlyuck (futurist)

• Victorian man

Oscar Wilde
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Conclusion
Conclusion