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Tag: De Profundis: Oscar Wilde’s narrative of mental anguish

  • De Profundis: Oscar Wilde’s narrative of mental anguish

    Anthony ChesebroStony Brook, New York, United States “There is only one season, the season of sorrow.”1 Imprisoned for a relationship that was criminalized by the government of his time, in 1897 Oscar Wilde had spent two years in jail. Finally granted permission to write, over a period of three months he produced De Profundis, an…