Au centre de la piece, fixe a un chevalet droit, se dressait le portrait en pied d'un jeune homme d'une extraordinaire beaute physique, devant lequel, a peu de distance, se tenait assis le peintre lui-meme, Basil Hallward, celui dont, il y a quelques annees, la disparition soudaine a, sur le moment, tant emu le public et donne lieu a d'etranges conjectures. Or Dorian Gray, jeune dandy seducteur et mondain, a fait ce voeu insense garder pour toujours l'eclat de sa beaute, tandis que le visage peint sur la toile assumerait le fardeau de ses passions et de ses peches. Et de fait, seul vieillit le portrait ou se peint l'ame noire de Dorian qui, bien plus tard, dira au peintre: Chacun de nous porte en soi le ciel et l'enfer.

Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

Fourvoyé dans l'ère victorienne, Oscar Wilde s'est fait le contempteur acharné de ses attitudes puritaines et conformistes, comme il devait faire preuve d'une inaptitude chronique à l'égard de la vie matérielle et de la vulgarité sous toutes leurs formes... Cet ouvrage propose un florilège épineux mais étincelant des aphorismes qui émaillent toute l'oeuvre de ce dandy de l'esprit, des mots et de la conduite, de ce provocateur qui n'hésitait pas à soutenir qu'une idée qui n'est point dangereuse ne mérite pas d'être appelée une idée, ou encore qu'une vérité cesse d'être vraie lorsque plus d'une personne y croit...

Pensées, mots d'esprit, parado

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La Maison Des Grenades

Oscar Wilde demuestra una vez más su maestría en las letras, esta vez a través de cinco relatos infantiles, publicados por primera vez en 1888. Relatos que se han convertido ya en historias universales como "El gigante egoísta" o "El ruiseñor y la rosa". Y como Wilde decía: "Los buenos novelistas son mucho más raros que los buenos hijos. Quizá sería lícito añadir que los buenos cuentistas son aún más raros que los buenos novelistas". Y sin duda este recopilatorio es una buena muestra de un excelente cuentista......

El príncipe feliz y otros cuentos

D'Oscar Wilde on retient surtout l'esprit fulgurant, les provocations, certains paradoxes, un roman (Le Portrait de Dorian Gray), quelques pièces de théâtre, enfin (surtout ?), sa condamnation aux travaux forcés pour pratiques homosexuelles. Wilde a longtemps pâti de son extraordinaire souci de créer sa propre légende, d'être non pas un créateur de fictions, mais une fiction vivante, et aussi du caractère spectaculaire de sa chute : passé de l'astre au désastre, l'élégant causeur dont les comédies triomphaient sur les scènes de Londres devenait brutalement un faussaire démasqué et un imposteur. Pour avoir voulu faire semblant d'être un homme honnête, il se trouva implicitement accusé d'avoir fait semblant d'être un écrivain. Le public d'aujourd'hui, soumis à un discours moins ou autrement normatif, voit plutôt en lui une victime de l'hypocrisie victorienne. Et l'écrivain de devenir une cause à défendre.Proposant des traductions nouvelles, regroupant la poésie, les contes et histoires, Dorian Gray, De profundis, les essais critiques (méconnus) et le théâtre, ce volume permet enfin à l'Œuvre de se dégager en tant que telle, dans sa cohérence comme dans ses contradictions, au-delà de ce qu'on a longtemps perçu comme un brillant recueil d'épigrammes.

Œuvres

Not your typical modern-day fairy tale.A House of Pomegranates is a collection of four fairy tales by Oscar Wilde, first published in 1891. Wilde himself once said, "These tales are not intended for very young children, " warning parents to not ruin the imaginative minds of their children by reading these stories to them. Although you won't find any happy endings in these brilliantly written short stories, they are filled with beautiful language, whimsical imagination, and varying messages on love. "The Young King" touches on the love of God and humility. "The Birthday of the Infanta" touches on sorrows experienced when love is not returned. "The Fisherman and His Soul" explores forbidden love and the lengths one goes to achieve it. "The Star-Child" completes the book by touching on forgiveness and redemption in the name of love. This freshly rendered edition of A House of Pomegranates captures Oscar Wilde's extraordinary language, timeless themes, and captivating storytelling that is sure to leave readers enthralled. Includes a new foreword by award-winning author Russell Davis.

A House of Pomegranates

Giovane e affascinante londinese del XIX secolo, per non perdere la sua bellezza, arriva a stipulare un patto demoniaco, grazie al quale rimane eternamentegiovane, lasciando invecchiare al suo posto il quadro che lo ritrae.

IL RITRATTO DI DORIAN GRAY

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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams and plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment which was followed by his early death. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French in Paris but it was refused a licence. Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London. At the height of his fame and success, while his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), was still on stage in London, Wilde had the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, prosecuted for libel, a charge carrying a penalty of up to two years in prison. The trial unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and trial for gross indecency with other men. After two more trials he was convicted and imprisoned for two years' hard labour. In 1897, in prison, he wrote De Profundis which was published in 1905, a long letter which discusses his spiritual journey through his trials, forming a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. Upon his release he left immediately for France, never to return to Ireland or Britain. There he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life. He died destitute in Paris at the age of forty-six.

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The Plays: VERA, THE DUCHESS OF PADUA, LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN, A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, SALOMÉ, SALOME (English Version), AN IDEAL HUSBAND, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST.

The Poetry: more than 100 poems.

The Novel: THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, including THE REVISED 20 CHAPTER VERSION.

The Short Stories: THE PORTRAIT OF MR. W. H., THE HAPPY PRINCE AND OTHER TALES, A HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES, LORD ARTHUR SAVILE'S CRIME AND OTHER STORIES.

The Non-Fiction: THE DECAY OF LYING, PEN, PENCIL AND POISON - A STUDY IN GREEN, THE CRITIC AS ARTIST, THE TRUTH OF MASKS, THE RISE OF HISTORICAL CRITICISM, THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE OF ART, HOUSE DECORATION, ART AND THE HANDICRAFTSMAN, LECTURE TO ART STUDENTS, LONDON MODELS, POEMS IN PROSE, THE SOUL OF MAN UNDER SOCIALISM, PHRASES AND PHILOSOPHIES FOR THE USE OF THE YOUNG, A FEW MAXIMS FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF THE OVER-EDUCATED, DE PROFUNDIS, OSCAR WILDE'S LETTER TO ROBERT BROWNING, PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA, THE DECORATIVE ARTS, THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL, THE TRUTH OF MASKS.

The Journalism: A HANDBOOK TO MARRIAGE, A RIDE THROUGH MOROCCO, ARISTOTLE AT AFTERNOON TEA, BALZAC IN ENGLISH, DINNERS AND DISHES, HAMLET AT THE LYCEUM, LONDON MODELS, MR MORRIS ON TAPESTRY, MR WHISTLER'S TEN O'CLOCK, MRS LANGTRY AS HESTER GRAZEBROOK, OLIVIA AT THE LYCEUM, THE AMERICAN INVASION, TWO BIOGRAPHIES OF KEATS, TWO LETTERS TO THE DAILY CHRONICLE, WOMAN'S DRESS.

Apocrypha: TELENY.

The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)

"Elle m'a dit qu'elle danserait avec moi si je lui apportais des roses rouges, gémissait le jeune Etudiant. Mais dans tout mon jardin il n'y a pas une seule rose rouge". De son nid dans l'yeuse le Rossignol l'entendit et le regarda à travers le feuillage et s'étonna. "Pas de rose rouge dans tout mon jardin," s'écria l'Etudiant, et ses beaux yeux s'emplirent de larmes. "Ah ! de quelles petites choses dépend le bonheur ! J'ai lu tout ce que les sages ont écrit, et tous les secrets de la philosophie sont à moi, et pourtant faute d'une rose rouge voilà ma vie brisée".

Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

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