Dorian Gray, un beau jeune homme, a le culte de la beauté et du plaisir et lorsqu'un ami peintre lui offre son portrait, Dorian s'effraie à l'idée de perdre ses charmes avec l'âge. Mais grâce à un voeu formulé, les vicissitudes de la vie glisseront sur lui, ne laissant aucune trace sur son visage, tandis que son portrait vieillira à sa place. Avec un essai sur l'art écrit par O. Wilde. ©Electre 2024
OSCARWILDE (1854-1900)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
"This portrait would be to him the most magical of mirrors. As it had revealed to him his own body, so it would reveal to him his own soul. And when winter came upon it, he would still be standing where spring trembles on the verge of summer. When the blood crept from its face, and left behind a pallid mask of chalk with leaden eyes, he would keep the glamour of boyhood. Not one blossom of his loveliness would ever fade. Not one pulse of his life would ever weaken. Like the gods of the Greeks, he would be strong, and fleet, and joyous. What did it matter what happened to the coloured image on the canvas ? He would be safe. That was everything."
This cowardly yet magnificent and desirable social outcast brings together in a single character several major figures of 19th century fiction : as the man who doesn't age and whose double is destined to condemn and kill him, he will be equally familiar to readers of Poe, James Hoggand Stevenson.
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The Decay of Lying
The Decay of Lying, written in 1889, is Oscar Wilde's most famous essay : "Life," he writes, "imitates art far more than art imitates life."
Paru le : 22/01/2005
Thématique : Littérature Anglo-Saxonne Littérature anglo saxonne classique en VO
Auteur(s) : Auteur : Oscar Wilde
Éditeur(s) :
Zulma
Collection(s) : Zulma classics
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : Non précisé.
EAN13 : 9782843042935
Reliure : Broché
Pages : 250
Hauteur: 19.0 cm / Largeur 13.0 cm
Épaisseur: 1.8 cm
Poids: 230 g
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