Les ailes du paradoxe

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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)

"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

Dorian Gray est un jeune homme d'une très grande beauté. Son ami artiste peintre Basil Hallward est obsédé par cette dernière et en tire toute son inspiration. Sa fascination pour le jeune homme le mène à faire son portrait, qui se révèle être la plus belle ouvre qu'il ait jamais peinte, et qu'il ne souhaite pas exposer : « J'y ai mis trop de moi-même ». Dorian va faire la connaissance de Lord Henry, dit Harry, un ami de Basil. Conscient de la fascination et de la perversion que ce dernier pourrait avoir pour son idéal de beauté, « cette nature simple et belle », Basil demande à Lord Henry de ne pas tenter de le corrompre. Mais Dorian se laisse séduire par les théories sur la jeunesse et le plaisir de ce nouvel ami qui le révèle à lui-même en le flattant : « Un nouvel hédonisme [.] Vous pourriez en être le symbole visible. Avec votre personnalité, il n'y a rien que vous ne puissiez faire ». Va naître dès lors en lui une profonde jalousie à l'égard de son propre portrait peint par Basil Hallward. Il souhaite que le tableau vieillisse à sa place pour que lui, Dorian Gray, garde toujours sa beauté d'adolescent. « Si le tableau pouvait changer tandis que je resterais ce que je suis ! ». 

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Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

Extrait : "-Bénissez-moi, mon père, car j'ai péché. Le prêtre tressaillit. Il était las d'esprit et de corps. Son âme était triste, son cour était gros depuis qu'il s'était assis dans la terrible solitude du confessionnal où il écoutait toujours la même assommante litanie de fautes éternellement ressassées. Il en avait assez des intonations de convention et des expressions comme clichées. Le monde serait-il donc toujours le même ? " À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARAN : Les éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques de grands classiques de la littérature ainsi que des livres rares, dans les domaines suivants : . Fiction : roman, poésie, théâtre, jeunesse, policier, libertin.

Le prêtre et l'acolyte - Études d'art et de littérature

" si je demeurais toujours jeune et que le portait vieillisse à ma place ! je donnerai tout, tout pour qu'il en soit ainsi.
 [...] je donnerai mon âme ! "

Le portrait de dorian gray

Guido

[Taking a letter from his pocket and reading it.] "The hour noon; the city, Padua; the place, the market; and the day, Saint Philip's Day."

Ascanio

And what of the man, how shall we know him?

Guido [reading still]

"I will wear a violet cloak with a silver falcon broidered on the shoulder." A brave attire, Ascanio.

Ascanio

I'd sooner have my leathern jerkin. And you think he will tell you of your father?

Guido

Why, yes! It is a month ago now, you remember; I was in the vineyard, just at the corner nearest the road, where the goats used to get in, a man rode up and asked me was my name Guido, and gave me this letter, signed "Your Father's Friend, " bidding me be here today if I would know the secret of my birth, and telling me how to recognise the writer! I had always thought old Pedro was my uncle, but he told me that he was not, but that I had been left a child in his charge by some one he had never since seen.

The Duchess of Padua

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.

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