想像力としてのキリスト,芸術としての愛の死 : O.ワイルド『奈落の底より』『レディング牢獄のバラッド』

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The two last masterpieces of Oscar Wilde, De Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Gaol, are his new types of sublime Christian writing that can be esteemed as serious existential and faithful enunciations-the former to imitate Christ as "imagination", which is "beautiful action", and the latter to allegorize the "love as art" and its death. In this paper, 17 pages on the latter subject are to be bulletined, because of the shortage of space. The estimation of The Ballad of Reading Gaol, written and published 1898, two years before Wilde's death, as his will, should duly depend on every possible critical way, what to read in/out, and how to evaluate aesthetically, humanly and religiously the final epigraph, "The man had killed the thing he loved/And so he had to die". The conclusion of the author will be set forth by weighing the two supraaesthetic assertions of Wilde's own : "I loved so much best that for that I deserved to die", and "I saw so much the beautiful Christ that I should have better died then".