Truly Wilde
A born writer who never completed the creative life promised by her famous name and gorgeous imagination, Dolly Wilde was charged with charm, brilliantly witty, changeable as refracting light, and loaded with sexual allure She made her career in the salons and in the bedrooms of some of London s and Paris most interesting women and men Attracting people of taste and talent wherever she went, she drenched her prodigious talents in liquids and chemicals, burnt up her opportunities in flamboyant affairs, and created continuous sensations by the ways in which she seemed to be re living the life of her infamous uncle In this revolutionary and very modern biography, Joan Schenkar provides a fascinating look at what it means to live with the talents but not the achievements of biography s usual subjects those obliterating winners like Dolly s uncle Oscar whose stories have almost erased riveting histories like Dolly s own And she uncovers never before published evidence of the hidden life of the Wilde family and of the extraordinary salon society of Natalie Clifford Barney, Dolly Wilde s longest and most fatal attachment. Read Truly Wilde By Joan Schenkar – kino-fada.fr I ve returned to this book several times over the years Ever since I first read this, I have been captivated by the life of Dolly Wilde and this book captured the personality of a person of who so few things are really known that I find that alone remarkable She was fascinating and tragic An artist of the spoken word who in another era might have become a public figure worshiped like Margaret Cho or other witty women She was involved in the Natalie Clifford Barney salon of the 1920s in Paris I ve returned to this book several times over the years Ever since I first read this, I have been captivated by the life of Dolly Wilde and this book captured the personality of a person of who so few things are really known ...This book about a fascinating life that went noticed but unrecorded gets five stars from me as a writer, on the merits of its bold, experimental structure and style which Dolly Wilde would have taken seriously That shows a respect for the subject, combined with a gutsiness, that is to the biographer s credit.As a reader, I rate it differently This revie...This is a weird, somewhat interesting, but mostly tedious and almost surreal book about Dolly Wilde, Oscar Wilde s niece The author seems infatuated with her and has written hundreds of pages describing the possibilities of her wit and intellect where, in fact, she appears to have never done anything except run around with the fast crowd of Paris and London in the 20 s, 30 s oh and she was one of Natalie Barney s lovers in competition with Romaine Brooks so that s interesting, of course, but This is a weird, somewhat interesting, but mostly tedious and almost surreal book about Dolly Wilde, Oscar Wilde s niece The author seems infatuated with her and has written hundreds of pages describing the possibilities of her wit and intellect where, in fact, she appears to have never done anything except run around with the fast crowd of Paris and London in the 20 s, 30 s oh and she was one of Natalie Barney s lovers in competition with Romaine B...Dear Joan Schenkar,believe it or not, people who read biographies do anticipate a certain amount of imagining how things were You don t need to tell us about it at length over and over again The life of Dolly Wilde seems like it is full and fa...A random used bookstore find comes through with the good gossip.I expected to love this book I am obsessed with Oscar Wilde and was ecstatic to find out that he had a lesbian niece living in 1920s Paris But Joan Schenkar is obviously not a non fiction writer and ruins her account of this fascinating woman s life by indulging in flowery language, hyperbole, supposition, and jumbled, disorienting storytelling Nonetheless, this book is still a valuable resource for any Wilde lover from the bits you can glean through the overwrou...incredible story of Wilde s niece and the Natalie Barney salon in Paris between the warsThough at times exasperatingly written and structured, the central story of Dolly s out of control life is entertaining and interesting.This is a hard, hard read The story itself is difficult, as Dolly had as tempestuous a life as you might imagine and then some The writing is dense simultaneously florid and insightful, as much as it is informative While the story is compelling, it suffers for the telling of it The author says right up front that the progression is topical rather than chronological, and for several good reasons that become apparent rather quickly However, the book could easily be several dozen page...While this book showed great promise initially, one soon grew tired of Dolly s attempts to out Oscar Oscar I found her extremely annoying after the first few chapters and was relieved when I entered Natalie Barney s inner circle To be taken into this mysterious realm by the woman who had been Barney s cook and confidante for forty years is the best part of this book This is a big book, so is difficult to transport in one s handbag However it could have been condensed into a 250 page paperbac While this book showed great promise initially, one soon grew tired of Dolly s attempts to out Oscar Oscar I found her extremely annoying after the first few chapters and was relieved when I entered Natalie Barney s inner circle To be taken into this mysterious realm by the woman who had been Barney s cook and confid...
- English
- 19 March 2017 Joan Schenkar
- Hardcover
- 400 pages
- 0465087728
- Joan Schenkar
- Truly Wilde