Intentions
Oscar Wilde · 1854 – 1900
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Four essays, two of them dialogues, in which Wilde argues with great wit that life imitates art, that lying is an art, and that criticism is itself creation. The paradoxes sparkle and sometimes merely glitter, but behind them lies a serious case for the autonomy of art that the next century took up.