![]() Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. He probably would have laughed hysterically at the extent of trouble critics went to prove his text could be analysed systematically, successfully and/or with brilliancy, as he professed that « All art is at once surface and symbol. « To be incomprehensible is a gift, not every one has it »(2), was he wont to saying. Besides, provocative Oscar Wilde worked his hardest to contrive a text as indecipherable as possible to challenge his readers’ expectations. What is there left us to say about Salomé, when so many talents have tried their art upon the mythic little princess of Judea when so much has been drawn, painted, sculpted and eventually written about her? She and her ‘authors’ have been the objects of so much criticism, metacriticism, and so on, that it seems a critical adventure hardly worth attempting. ![]()
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