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You will enjoy this if you love witty talk, paradox and sharp opinions about books, painting and the theatre, and like to see an author defend beauty and taste with a smile.
本の内容
Would you rather spend a lovely afternoon on the grass, or indoors arguing that nature copies painters? Vivian, the speaker in the first essay of Intentions, picks the library. He says London's fogs did not exist until artists taught people to see them.
Intentions is a book of four essays by Oscar Wilde, gathered from magazine pieces in the early 1890s. Two are dialogues between friends, one is a memoir of a poisoning painter, and one is a note on staging Shakespeare. Wilde argues that art owes nothing to nature, to facts or to moral lessons. You get the whole argument, piece by piece, each idea with its scene and example.
この要約の内容
- 1Art improves on nature, so lying becomes an art無料
- 2Realism fails because it copies life and loses beauty
- 3Life imitates art far more than art imitates life
- 4Art expresses only itself, never its age
- 5Wainewright shows an artist can be a poisoner
- 6Wilde keeps moral verdicts out of aesthetic judgment
- 7The Greeks made criticism, and criticism is creative
- 8The best critic records his own impressions
- 9Contemplation beats action, and beauty outranks morals
- 10Accurate costume is part of Shakespeare's illusion
重要なポイント 1/10
Art improves on nature, so lying becomes an art
The first essay, The Decay of Lying, is a dialogue between two friends in a country house library in Nottinghamshire. Cyril wants to go outside and enjoy the lovely afternoon. Vivian refuses, because he says he has lost the faculty of enjoying nature. He is busy correcting the proofs of an article.
Nature, he complains, is badly finished. The grass is damp and the insects are dreadful. Houses beat the open air, because indoors everything is made for human use. Art is a gallant protest that teaches nature her place.
His article claims that ancient historians gave delightful fiction dressed as fact, while modern novelists give dull facts dressed as fiction. A fine lie is one that is its own evidence. Vivian contradicts himself on purpose, since he asks who wants to be consistent. Under the play lies a real point, that art needs invention before it needs accuracy.
Take beautiful untruth as art's proper aim.
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『意図』についての質問
What is Intentions by Oscar Wilde about?
It collects essays on art and criticism, mostly as dialogues between friends. The pieces argue that art owes nothing to nature or morals, that life copies art, and that criticism is itself a creative art.
What does The Decay of Lying mean?
Wilde means the decline of imaginative invention, the telling of beautiful untrue things. Vivian argues that modern writers copy facts and so lose the imagination that gave literature its charm and its life.
Who are Vivian, Gilbert and Ernest?
They are speakers in Wilde's dialogues. Vivian argues for lying in the first essay, while Gilbert argues for criticism and contemplation in The Critic as Artist, answering the questions and objections of his friend Ernest.
Is Pen, Pencil and Poison a true story?
It is a memoir of a real man, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, born in 1794, who wrote about art and was tried for forgery. Wilde tells his life with irony and uses it to argue that art and morals are separate.
Is Intentions easy to read?
The dialogues move through conversation, jokes and vivid scenes, so ideas arrive one at a time in a lively voice. Each essay has a clear subject, and the dialogues reward reading aloud.
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Wilde, Oscar. Intentions. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/intentions.
Wilde, O. (2026). Intentions. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/intentions (Original work published 1891)
Wilde, Oscar. Intentions. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/intentions.
@book{wilde2026intentions,
author = {Wilde, Oscar},
title = {Intentions},
publisher = {Library of Alexandria},
year = {2026},
url = {https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/intentions},
note = {First published 1891}
}
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