Da recensão no New York Times de domingo ao livro "Built of Books. How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde", Thomas Wright, A John Macrae Book/Henry Holt & Company (na foto, Oscar Wilde):
"What becomes clear to Wright in his attempt to read all that Wilde read is how cautious we should be of easy identification with him today. His “sexual rebellion,” as Wright chastely puts it, may make him appear modern, but “in intellectual and existential terms,” he is “utterly alien to us.” It is not just the “labyrinthine commentaries on Hegel” that stand in Wright’s way. It is Wilde’s thorough classical education. Before he knew rentboys intimately he knew the Greek writers intimately, and many more besides, from Augustine to Shakespeare to Pater. “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life,” Wilde wrote in “The Decay of Lying,” and this may be less an aesthetic paradox than an admission of the extent to which, as Wright more prosaically puts it, “he always came to life via books, literally seeing reality through them.” "
Michael Shae
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