THE DEATH OF OSCAR WILDE: DISEASE OR SUICIDE? Cover Image

OSCAR WİLDE’IN ÖLÜMÜ: HASTALIK MI İNTİHAR MI?
THE DEATH OF OSCAR WILDE: DISEASE OR SUICIDE?

Author(s): Serhat Soyşekerci
Subject(s): Modern Age, Other Language Literature, 19th Century, History of Art
Published by: Sanat ve Dil Araştırmaları Enstitüsü
Keywords: Oscar Wilde; fall; syphilis; suicide; dead;

Summary/Abstract: The Irish poet, playwright, storyteller, novelist, humorist, and critic Oscar Wilde’s life is like a play with two acts. The curtain opens with the rise of his success and closes with his fall from grace. His rise came when he stepped into a glamorous life at Oxford and his fall came when he was imprisoned because of his badly ended relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas. Wilde’s life is fiction becoming reality. It is a journey from narrative to existence. This article focuses on the story of the artist’s fall and examines if his death was from disease or suicide.

  • Issue Year: 8/2019
  • Issue No: 58
  • Page Range: 793-801
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Turkish