As we saw in module 1, Lorca was interested in the life and work of the Irish writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), who, after a painful and public judicial process related to his sexual identity, died in 1900 at the age of 46 in Paris.
Both suffered the incomprehension of a society that did not accept their homosexuality, were interested in the arts beyond literature (Wilde was the driving force behind a trend within art called aestheticism) and met an untimely death that interrupted an influential and fruitful oeuvre.
Particularly revealing is the characterisation of the female world in both authors, with prototypical characters, for example the matron in Wilde or the elderly woman in Lorca, or rebellious women or characters on the fringes of the socially established.
Did you know about Oscar Wilde's life? What do you think of the parallel tragic destiny of both writers? Have you read/seen any of Wilde's works?
