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Hello pornies! How are you feeling today? In
the mood to read a bit of history? I hope so, because today’s book is about one
of the most prominent gay authors of the Victorian era.
Not long ago (lie, a couple of months,
actually,) I got a copy of Beautiful Untrue Things: Forging Oscar Wilde’s Extraordinary Afterlife, by Gregory Mackie, which tells us about what happened after
Oscar Wilde’s death and how people tried to manipulate his name for their own
benefits selling forgeries: fake letters and manuscripts that they advertised
as original and long-lost texts.
One may think at first that there is nothing
interesting in investigating old documents and reading about the history of
fake papers, but trust me on this one: you’ll
never guess what a pandemonium the literary market became after the Wilde’s
passing: from legal disputes to psychic messages with the author, or even a whole manuscript supposedly written with
the Ouija board!
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I won’t lie, Beautiful Untrue Things: Forging Oscar Wilde’s Extraordinary Afterlife was
really heavy and hard to follow. However, it
sparks your curiosity over and over again with the interesting facts and
anecdotes including in each chapter, each of which speaks about notorious
manuscripts and histories.
Gregory Mackie surprised me with the amount of
research done, and as soon as I had a question about something, he was already
giving the answer! There are no hole in this book, which, I have to say, is
surprising. The author included all the
juicy details of Wilde’s literary afterlife, leaving the reader satisfied.
Beautiful Untrue Things: Forging Oscar Wilde’s Extraordinary Afterlife may not be a book for everyone, it’s true, but I consider it fundamental if Wilde is one of your Mighty Dead, an ancestor you wish choose to honor. After all, can anyone name one gay author that has given the world so much to talk about even after his death? I will be keeping an eye on Gregory Mackie on my radar, that’s for sure! Thanks to the publisher for the copy!
Kinky regards, K!
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