Wednesday, 26 January 2011

Would you consider Oscar Wilde as a modern writer?

That is certainly a difficult question to answer accurately. Oscar Wilde, according to his period, was a late-victorian writer along with Hardy or Stevenson, for instance. However, we must bear in mind the fact that he may have some modern characteristics which may lead us to categorize him sometimes in the same modernist package.

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  1. ¿Por qué diríais que Wilde es modernista? No me queda del todo claro. Es decir, las características de esta primera mitad del siglo XX son las de romper con toda realidad, las del inicio de las vanguardias y de los sinsentidos. No sé, supongo que me gusta demasiado Oscar Wilde como para querer encasillarlo sea donde sea.

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