Quels rapports existent-ils entre un dandy comme Oscar Wilde et un ermite oriental, un auteur de pièces à succès et un saint rustique, l'ascétisme de l'un et l'hédonisme de l'autre oe
Cet éloge percutant de Tchouang-tseu, l'un des plus grands penseurs taoistes ; nous en apprend autant sur le compte de l'auteur de Dorian Gray que sur celui de son modèle, le « sage chinois ». Voici donc la rencontre inattendue, et pleine d'esprit, de deux tempéraments anticonformistes avant toute chose.

Un sage chinois

Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde’s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author’s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray’s moral disintegration caused a scandal when it ﬁrst appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel’s corrupting inﬂuence, he responded that there is, in fact, “a terrible moral in Dorian Gray.” Just a few years later, the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde’s homosexual liaisons, which resulted in his imprisonment. Of Dorian Gray’s relationship to autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, “Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps.

Le Portrait De Dorian Gray

Sont rassemblés sous le titre "Sententiæ" des extraits d'articles de l'auteur du Portrait de Dorian Gray. Sa collaboration avec la presse fut féconde, il publia de nombreux textes, moins connus, où brille le même esprit ironique et porté sur le paradoxe. Des pages où s'affirme toujours avec force la primauté de l'art qui fait de la vie de chaque citoyen un sacrement.
Deux séries d'aphorismes complètent ce florilège de pensées :"Phrases et philosophies à l'usage de la jeunesse" et "Quelques maximes pour l'instruction des gens trop cultivés".

Sententiæ

500 citations d'humour

"Je suis jaloux de tout ce dont la beauté ne périt pas. Je suis jaloux de ce portrait de moi que tu as peint. De quel droit garderait-il ce que je dois perdre ? Chaque minute qui passe m'enlève quelque chose pour le lui donner. Ah ! si ce pouvait être l'inverse ! Si le portrait pouvait changer, et moi rester éternellement tel que je suis à présent !" Ce voeu exaucé ne sera pas sans conséquences pour le jeune Dorian Gray. Ainsi galvanisé par sa beauté éternelle et par les préceptes hédonistes de son ami Lord Henry, Dorian Gray semble ne plus discerner le Bien du Mal... Avec Le Portrait de Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde emprunte au récit fantastique et au conte philosophique pour dépeindre avec cynisme et poésie le Londres victorien et esquisser en filigrane un manifeste en faveur de l'Art.

Le portrait de Dorian Gray / The Picture of Dorian Gray

Consumed with self-importance, a rocket misses his chance for greatness at the wedding of a prince and princess. When he is found by two boys, he feels again his chance at greatness, only to have his final explosion go off unobserved. Victorian author Oscar Wilde is known both as a playwright and prose author. Among his most famous works are The Picture of Dorian Gray, his only novel, the plays An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, and the short story collections Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories and The Happy Prince and Other Stories. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

The Remarkable Rocket - Short Story

Extrait : "Le principal avantage qui résulterait de l'établissement du socialisme serait, à n'en pas douter, que nous serions délivrés par lui de cette sordide nécessité de vivre pour d'autres, qui dans l'état actuel des choses, pèse d'un poids si lourd sur tous presque sans exception. En fait, on ne voit pas qui peut s'y soustraire."À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARANLes éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques de qualité de grands livres de la littérature classique mais également des livres rares en partenariat avec la BNF. Beaucoup de soins sont apportés à ces versions ebook pour éviter les fautes que l'on trouve trop souvent dans des versions numériques de ces textes. LIGARAN propose des grands classiques dans les domaines suivants : . Livres rares. Livres libertins. Livres d'Histoire. Poésies. Première guerre mondiale. Jeunesse. Policier

L'Âme humaine sous le régime socialiste - Essai sur les sciences sociales

Wilde the writer is known to us from his plays and prose fiction, but apparently it was in his conversation that his genius reached its summit. His talk is lost and his autobiography was never written, but his letters reveal him at his spontaneous, sparkling best.

 Wilde the writer is known to us from his plays and prose fiction, yet it was in his conversation that his genius reached its summit. His talk is lost, his autobiography was never written, but his letters reveal him at his spontaneous, sparkling best.

 Of all nineteenth-century letter writers Oscar Wilde is, predictably, one of the most brilliant. Wonderfully fluent in style, the letters bear that most familiar of Wildean hallmarks - the lightest of touches for the most serious of subjects. He comments openly on his life and his work from the early years of undergraduate friendship, through his year-long lecture tour in America as a striving young 'Professor of Aesthetics', to the short period of fame and success in the early 1890s, when he corresponded with many leading political, literary and artistic figures of the time. Disgrace and imprisonment followed, but even in adversity his humour does not desert him.

 In this beautifully produced volume Merlin Holland has brought together his most revealing letters with an illuminating commentary. Together they form the closest thing we shall ever have to Wilde's own memoir.

Oscar Wilde - A Life in Letters

Outraged by the sexual perversity of this one-act tragedy, Great Britain's Lord Chamberlain banned Salomé from the national stage. Symbolist poets and writers — Stéphane Mallarmé and Maurice Maeterlinck among them — defended the play's literary brilliance. Beyond its notoriety, the drama's haunting poetic imagery, biblical cadences, and febrile atmosphere have earned it a reputation as a masterpiece of the Aesthetic movement of fin de siècle England.Written originally in French in 1892, this sinister tale of a woman scorned and her vengeance was translated into English by Lord Alfred Douglas. The play inspired some of Aubrey Beardsley's finest illustrations, and an abridged version served as the text for Strauss' renowned opera of the same name. This volume reprints the complete text of the first English edition, published in 1894, and also includes "A Note on Salomé" by Robert Ross, Wilde's lifelong friend and literary executor. Students, lovers of literature and drama, and admirers of Oscar Wilde and his remarkable literary gifts will rejoice in this inexpensive edition.

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