Oscar Wilde: The Makers of Modern Literature

by Edouard Roditi

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About the author

Poet, essayist, and translator Edouard Roditi was born (1910) in Paris to American parents. He studied at Oxford University and earned his BA from the University of Chicago. An art critic for the French journal L’Arche for roughly 30 years, Roditi was closely associated with the Surrealist movement, and he was the first to translate the writings of the French surrealist Andre Breton into English. He lived most of his life in Paris, though he spent time in the United States and worked as a translator at the Nuremberg war crimes trials. He died in Spain in 1992.