Me cita un profesor de clásicas de Oxford a cuenta de Polibio, y a cuenta de Oscar Wilde que tiene más arrastre últimamente. No es que me cite mucho pero bueno—aquí:
Pitcher, Luke. (U of Oxford,
Classics Dpt.). "Polybius and Oscar Wilde: Pragmatike Historia in
Nineteenth-century Oxford." Academia
(2018).*
El artículo citado es éste que escribí sobre el ensayo historiográfico de Wilde The Rise of Historical Criticism:
_____. "Benefit of Hindsight:
Polibio, Vico, Wilde y el emergentismo crítico." In Zaguán 24 March 2009.*
Aunque ahora que lo pienso, he escrito más de dos notas sobre Polibio. Aquí,
for future reference:
García Landa, José Ángel.
"Lecciones de Polibio." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 26 Jan. 2007.
2007
_____. "Benefit of
Hindsight." In García Landa, Vanity
Fea 28 Jan. 2007. (Wilde, Polybius, criticism).
2007-01-31
_____. "Benefit of Hindsight:
Polibio, Vico, Wilde y el emergentismo crítico / Benefit of Hindsight:
Polybius, Vico, Wilde, and Critical Emergentism" Online PDF at Social Science Research Network 9
November 2007:
2007
Literary Theory and Criticism eJournal 9 Nov. 2007:
2012
English and Commonwealth Literature eJournal
9 Nov. 2007:
2012
History of Western Philosophy eJournal 6.40 (10 Dec. 2013).*
2013
_____. "Benefit of Hindsight:
Polibio, Vico, Wilde y el emergentismo crítico." In Zaguán 24 March 2009.*
2009
_____. "Benefit of Hindsight:
Polibio, Vico, Wilde y el emergentismo crítico." ResearchGate 20 Aug. 2012.*
2012
_____. "Locros, sicilianos y pelaires." In García
Landa, Vanity Fea 24 March 2012.*
(Polybius).
2012
_____. "La Autómata Asesina." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 25 March 2012.* (Korda,
Polybius).
2012
_____. "Lógica de la narratividad según Polibio."
In García Landa, Vanity Fea 12 April
2012.*
2012
_____. "Lógica de la narratividad según
Polibio." Social Science Research
Network 29 Nov. 2015.*
2015
_____. "La lógica de la narratividad según Polibio." In García
Landa, Vanity Fea 1 Dec. 2015.*
2015
_____. "Reading as Virtual Reality." In García
Landa, Vanity Fea 5 June 2012.*
(Polybius, Gottschall).
2012
_____. "Evolución, anaciclosis y dialéctica social de
la historia." In García Landa, Vanity
Fea 5 Sept. 2012.*
2012
_____.
"Maquiavelismo religioso en Polibio. Y el triunfo de la demagogia."
In García Landa, Vanity Fea 27 Oct.
2012.*
2012
_____. "Aníbal el Caníbal." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 21 Dec. 2012.*
2012
_____. "Anclaje
narrativo y círculo hermenéutico en un texto de Polibio." In García Landa,
Vanity Fea 5 Jan. 2013.*
2013-01-31
_____. "Polibio y el
tiempo geológico." In García Landa, Vanity
Fea 17 Jan. 2013.*
2013
_____.
"Polibio y el tiempo geológico (Polybius and Geological Time)." Social Science Research Network 2 June
2014.*
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2442688
2014
Biological
Anthropology eJournal 28 May 2014.*
2014
Ancient
Philosophical & Scientific Texts eJournal
28 May 2014.*
2014
History
of Western Philosophy eJournal 3 June 2014.*
2014
Philosophy of Science eJournal 2 June
2014.*
2014
_____. "Polibio
y el tiempo geológico." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 2 June 2014.*
2014
_____. "Polibio
y el tiempo geológico." Academia
29 Jan. 2015.*
2015
_____. "Polibio
y el tiempo geológico." ResearchGate
29 Jan. 2015.*
2015
_____.
"Retroperspectiva y perspicacia: El emergentismo crítico de Polibio a
Wilde." In Otium cum dignitate:
Estudios en homenaje al profesor José Javier Iso Echegoyen. Ed. J. A.
Beltrán, A. Encuentra, G. Fontana, A. I. Magallón, and R. Mª Marina. (Monografías
de Filología Latina, 16). Zaragoza: Universidad de Zaragoza, 2013. 677-88.*
2013
_____. "Retroperspectiva y
perspicacia: El emergentismo crítico de Polibio a Wilde (Insight in Hindsight:
Critical Emergentism from Polybius to Wilde)." Social Science Research Network 11 Nov. 2013.*
2013
Ancient Greek & Roman Literature
eJournal 11 Nov. 2013.*
2013
Ancient Philosophical & Scientific Texts eJournal 11 Nov.
2013.*
2013
Literary Theory & Criticism
eJournal 3.11 (18 Nov. 2013).*
History of Western Philosophy eJournal 11 Nov. 2013.*
2013
_____. "Retroperspectiva y perspicacia: El emergentismo
crítico de Polibio a Wilde." Academia
18 Aug. 2014.*
2014
_____. "Retroperspectiva y perspicacia: El emergentismo
crítico de Polibio a Wilde." ResearchGate
19 Aug. 2014.*
2014
Este capítulo de Otium cum dignitate es, claro, una reescritura del artículo arriba citado.
También tengo más artículos sobre Wilde, pero bueno, hasta aquí hoy.
—oOo—
Personal treatment that Wilde deems to have been hugely unjust has built up much resentment in the heart of this once so carefree flamboyant wordsmith.
Consequently exiled to the shores of France and then further afield, he lives out his final years begging for handouts and favours from those he knows and loves. Those, that is, that haven't turned their back on the now disgraced writer.
Everett's film focuses upon a man whose incarceration and subsequent humiliation on charges of sodomy and gross indecency - following his lewd bordering on nefarious behaviour (in the eyes of the law) - have left him near destitute; a far cry from the opulent lifestyle that once he had led.
The Happy Prince is built loosely around Wilde reciting his fairy tale of the same name to both his own biological sons - during happier married times - and latterly on his death bed to the rag tag 'family' of young urchins that he had befriended.
Wilde - under his newly acquired guise of Melmoth - has a kind of morbidly humorous fascination with both the hopelessness of the predicament in which he now finds himself, and with the plethora of men that continue to fawn over him.
A period piece The Happy Prince may essentially be, but there's a strongly contemporary feel to the film's at times bewitching cinematography, switching neatly and expertly by way of multiple rapid cross fades between Wilde's past and present in an effort to build a picture of - and emphasise the massive disparity between - 'now' and then.
Everett's stupendous performance as Wilde is both arresting and heartfelt, whilst there are meaningful contributions from Colin Firth as Wilde's good friend Reggie, and from Colin Morgan and Edwin Thomas as Bosie and Robbie, respectively, the two mainstays in Wilde's love life who continue to compete fiercely for his attentions, and between whom there is absolutely no love lost.
As for Emily Watson's portrayal of Constance, as solid as it is, one can't help but think that it remains a little peripheral to the film's narrative at times. Perhaps Everett could have made a little more of the clearly strained relationship that had existed between the two, and the impact that this had had upon their children?
It seems that Wilde was indeed harshly dealt with, and laws or no laws, would have had rightful justification to feel aggrieved at his treatment at the hands of the rather puritanical overreaching government of the time.
That said, Everett's film seems intent to paint Wilde not as some sort of saintly martyr, but as a charming but deeply flawed man with a propensity for making poor life decisions. A man who had flown too close to the sun, and who perhaps had been more than a little guilty of using and abusing those that knew and loved him so much for his own personal gain.
The Happy Prince, whilst at times cheeky and playful in its outlook, never strays too far from its melancholic roots in its elegantly crafted, poignant regaling of the final days of the late great Oscar Wilde.