Wilde's presence disturbed the literary scene of the 19th century, and he was the prodigal son of the times, denounced by Camus as a "deception of the art of falling people." But now, his plays, novels, and fairy tales have been reprinted again and again, his famous quotes have appeared frequently on the Internet, and his love history and anecdotes have been talked about.
Wilde's family was in excellent condition. As a child, he had a soft spot for flowers and sunsets, most interested in poetry and classical literature. While studying at Oxford University, Wilde became acquainted with several like-minded professors and friends, which inspired his devout aestheticist tendencies, and he began to firmly regard reality as the enemy of art. He advocates the purity of art for art's sake, and his works are full of dreamy and sad aesthetic mood and romantic temperament of partial extremism. Although the drama "Salome", which represents his literary achievements, adopts the framework of the story of Salome in the Bible, Wilde completely changed the original meaning of the story and incorporated his own aesthetic approach, expressing the aesthetic concepts of love and beauty, love and sin.
Wilde was so beautiful that it was rumored that he had sought the best tailors in London and made clothes for beggars from the finest fabrics. "Even if you are poor, you should be beautiful" is Wilde's insistence, in his absence from prison, poor health, Wilde wrote to friends, asking him to prepare a variety of clothing, decorations, soap, etc., each with specific brand, color, style requirements.
On November 30, 1900, Wilde, who had been tortured for a long time, died in Paris. Nearly a century after being discredited, on 30 November 1998, the Statue of Wilde was unveiled on Adelaide Street, near London's Trafalgar Square, with his oft-quoted quote: "We are all in the gutters, but there are still people looking up at the stars."
A Harvard expert once said, "But everyone who has achieved something has a common disease to a greater or lesser extent: paranoia." Those who are considered paranoid tend to stick to their original intentions better than ordinary people, focusing most of their energy on the cause they pursue. Wilde was called the prodigal son of the times by the literary world, and his words and deeds were denounced by conservatives as heretics. But it is Wilde's paranoid pursuit of love and beauty that allows us to see a different literary mood today, so that we can still look up at the stars in the gutter.