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De Profundis
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From the depths of Reading Gaol, where he was imprisoned for "gross indecency," Oscar Wilde wrote a letter that would become his last great prose work. Addressed to Lord Alfred Douglas—the young man whose vanity and arrogance had led to Wilde's downfall—De Profundis is part confession, part accusation, and part spiritual awakening.
Denied books, human contact, and hope, Wilde turned inward. He repudiates Douglas's cruelty, recalling his lover's remark: "When you are not on your pedestal you are not interesting". But more than a cry of betrayal, this is a meditation on suffering as redemption. Wilde comes to believe that hardship, however bitter, fills the soul with the fruit of experience—that sorrow is the deepest truth of all.
Written on prison paper between January and March 1897, the manuscript was smuggled out upon his release and entrusted to a friend for posthumous publication . For decades it appeared only in censored form, with Douglas's name removed . Now it stands as Wilde's most intimate work: a letter never sent, a masterpiece born of humiliation, and a testament that even in the depths, the artist endures.
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