Author: Wilde, Oscar

Brand: Penguin

Color: White

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 144

Release Date: 08-06-2021

Part Number: 9780241472453

Details: 'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life'

The two works brought together here, 'The Decay of Lying' and 'The Critic as Artist', are Oscar Wilde's wittiest and most profound writings on aesthetics, in which he proposes that criticism is the highest form of creation and that lying, the telling of a beautiful untruth, is the ultimate aim of art.

One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.

EAN: 9780241472453

Package Dimensions: 7.0 x 4.4 x 0.4 inches

Languages: English