Abstract: Peter Ackroyd’s biography shares something of novel writing on the basis of life reality. In The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde, Ackroyd subjectively reconstructs Oscar Wilde’s life in pursuit of his symbolic identity in the form of Wilde's pseudo diary. The national and family identities acquired from the name symbol and the artistic celebrity status obtained from the ideal filling constitute the social and internal identity of Oscar Wilde. However, the change of life has caused his multiple identities to be stripped from his social existence and psychological reality. Ackroyd’s Oscar Wilde in the biography by way of the biographer’s peculiar narrative rebuilds Wilde’s collapsed multiple identities and reconstructs him as a symbolic identity of the great aesthetician artist and forerunner of the times.

Keywords: Peter Ackroyd, Oscar Wilde; Symbolic Identity, The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde