Le Portrait de Dorian Gray (French Edition) - Softcover

Wilde, Oscar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1534847251 ISBN 13: 9781534847255

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

Dorian Gray, un beau jeune homme, décide de poser pour son ami peintre afin qu’il fasse son portrait. Très vaniteux, et obsédé par sa propre image, Gray est alors fasciné par le résultat du tableau: à un tel point, qu’il ressent une jalousie irrationnelle pour la représentation de lui-même. Tourmenté à l'idée que sa beauté puisse faner, il passe un pacte: c'est le portrait qui vieillira et qui endossera toute la vilenie de son alter ego tandis que le modèle restera jeune, beau... et cruel. Le chef d’œuvre d'Oscar Wilde, qui scandalisa l'Angleterre victorienne, décrit la dualité de l’âme humaine, ses perversions, ses contradictions.

About this title

About the Author:

Oscar Wilde was born on October 16, 1854, to the Irish nationalist and writer Speranza Wilde and the doctor William Wilde. After graduating from Oxford in 1878, Wilde moved to London, where he became notorious for his sharp wit and flamboyant style of dress.

Though he was publishing plays and poems throughout the 1880s, it wasn t until the late 1880s and early 1890s that his work started to be received positively. In 1895, Oscar Wilde was tried for homosexuality and was convicted and sentenced to two years in prison. Tragically, this downfall came at the height of his career, as his plays, An Ideal Husband "and The Importance of Being Earnest, "were playing to full houses in London. He was greatly weakened by the privations of prison life, and moved to Paris after his sentence. Wilde died in a hotel room, either of syphilis or complications from ear surgery, in Paris, on November 30, 1900.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1534847251
• ISBN 13: 9781534847255
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 214
• Editor: Tite Fée Édition