From the depths, Oscar Wilde's messages from prison | Oscar Wilde

It is a deep literary documentation of Oscar Wilde's spiritual journey during his years of imprisonment, which changed his beliefs about beauty and freedom, so that he realized that superficiality is the greatest vice. The consequences of the accusation that led to his imprisonment haunted him on both personal and literary levels. Oscar Wilde entered prison surrounded by the laughter of skeptics and mockers, and all those who wished for his fall and failure. Even his literature, which had reached the highest levels of fame at the time, and the plays that were performed for many years, all stopped, and re-staging them in national theaters was banned. The books bearing his name were also prohibited from circulation. Although all these consequences were harsh and heavy on him, and destructive to his reputation and life, Wilde attributed his suffering and pain mainly to the betrayal of his friend and his forgetting everything he had given him of love, friendship, and loyalty. These messages are the harvest of the suffering and regret that Oscar Wilde endured during his days in prison, which he drank alone and forsaken, without the opportunity to tell his story from his own perspective. Messages sent to the world before reaching Alfred Douglas, clarifying the nature of their relationship and its impact on Wilde's life and art, and what it resulted in of loss and betrayal. It was as if he was writing to be here, to be free, to fly even a little, despite the wound that surrounds his wings.