Verso il sole

Oscar Wilde, traveling under an assumed name after his harsh imprisonment in English jails on charges of homosexuality, had rented a villa in Posillipo alongside Lord Alfred Douglas, the son of his accuser, where he sought to achieve the perfection of his temperament and his soul. His arrival in Naples, where he would complete one of his masterpieces, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, was by no means accidental, however. This book, while on the one hand serving as a faithful diary of the "romance," on the other seeks to reconstruct and highlight the motivations behind a new "season" in Wilde's work and thought, which transitions from a dimension of "dandyism" to a "viscerality" that we will later find taken to its extreme consequences in the work of Jean Genet. Written y Renato Miracco.