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With the 40th anniversary of the bookshop, we will start a new series of events talking about the Oscar Wilde's plays, life and his aphorisms. |
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Our next meeting will focus on
Vera, or The Nihilists
by Oscar Wilde
Wednesday, 7th November 2018, at 7 pm
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Vera is the first play written by Oscar Wilde. It is a melodramatic tragedy set in Russia and is loosely based on the life of Vera Zasulich who plots to kill the country’s tyrannical Czar, in league with the Nihilists.
A nihilist is a "strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in […] a purely literary product. He was invented by [Turgenev, in Fathers and Sons (1861)] and completed by Dostoyevsky."
