Author
Oscar Wilde
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University of Virginia Press
Published
November 2011
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Author
Oscar Wilde
Book Format
Hardcover
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Published
November 2011
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Unique among his works, Oscar Wilde's play Salom (1893) was written originally in French. Joseph Donohue's new translation of the horrific New Testament story has recast Wilde's shockingly radical drama in the natural idiomatic language of our own day. Presenting a colloquial and spare American English version of Wilde's consciously stylized French, Donohue's approach gives full value to the Irish author's dark ruminations on evil and perversity in a world on the brink of a new, unsettling Christian dispensation.
The play was first translated into English in 1894 by Wilde's young friend Lord Alfred Douglas, but Wilde was far from pleased with the outcome. And yet Douglas's stilted, inaccurate version has somehow retained a long-standing place on the stage and in the study. Donohue's lucid vernacular transformation of Douglas's safe, thee-and-thou faux-biblical language has the quality of a startling modern-dress remounting of an overly familiar classic play. This new Salom is calculated to bring both readers and playgoers into close, disturbing confrontation with one of the most erotic and bloodiest sequences of testamentary lore.
Brilliantly complementing Donohue's unprecedented approach is a set of engravings by a master illustrator of our time. Barry Moser is an artist who speaks the blunt yet fluent language of present-day communication through the penetrating gestural vocabulary of the graphic arts. The resulting combination of words and images directly engages with Wilde's characters and their story, setting a bold new standard for the melding of literary and pictorial excellence. At the same time, it leads readers and audiences alike to rediscover perennially significant themes--of love, death, power, and individuality.
A signed and numbered limited edition is available for $100.00.
Author
Oscar Wilde
Book Format
Hardcover
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Published
November 2011
Weight
227g
Dimensions
153 x 229 x 13 mm
ISBN
9780813931920
ISBN-10
0813931924
Eden Code
5679163
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Author/Creator: Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9780813931920
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date: November 2011
Weight: 227g
Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 13 mm
Eden Code: 5679163