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  • ISBN978-87-26-97604-5
  • EAN9788726976045
  • Date de parution05/01/2023
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  • ÉditeurSAGA Egmont

Résumé

"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit." One day, the artist Basil Hallward is painting a picture of his muse Dorian Gray with his friend Lord Henry watching. Dorian listens as Lord Henry confidentially presents his hedonistic world view, saying beauty is the only thing in life that truly matters. It makes Dorian wish that his painting would age instead of him.
Not long thereafter, Dorian sees his girl perform Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and is so turned off by her bad performance that he rejects her. When he gets home, he notices a certain cruel sneer in his portrait. Told with flowery and snappy Jane Austen-like language, The Picture of Dorian Gray, about a young man who sells his soul for eternal youth, is Oscar Wilde's most famous and popular work.
It has been adapted for film and television many times, most recently in the 2009 film Dorian Gray starring Colin Firth and Ben Barnes. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet, famous for 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' and 'The Importance of Being Earnest' to name a couple. He was believed to be gay and met a lot of resistance in his life on that account. He died in Paris at the age of 46.
"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit." One day, the artist Basil Hallward is painting a picture of his muse Dorian Gray with his friend Lord Henry watching. Dorian listens as Lord Henry confidentially presents his hedonistic world view, saying beauty is the only thing in life that truly matters. It makes Dorian wish that his painting would age instead of him.
Not long thereafter, Dorian sees his girl perform Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and is so turned off by her bad performance that he rejects her. When he gets home, he notices a certain cruel sneer in his portrait. Told with flowery and snappy Jane Austen-like language, The Picture of Dorian Gray, about a young man who sells his soul for eternal youth, is Oscar Wilde's most famous and popular work.
It has been adapted for film and television many times, most recently in the 2009 film Dorian Gray starring Colin Firth and Ben Barnes. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet, famous for 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' and 'The Importance of Being Earnest' to name a couple. He was believed to be gay and met a lot of resistance in his life on that account. He died in Paris at the age of 46.

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Everlasting beauty has its price...
The story happens during the Victorian era, around the figure of the young and very handsome lad Dorian Gray. After becoming the model and muse of Basil Hallward, a sensitive painter, Gray is so enthralled by his portrait that he implicitly makes a deal with the devil ; he wished for the picture to grow old in his place so he can remain untouched by the marks of time. But every pact has a catch... Influenced by his mentor Lord Henry and his hedonistic world view, Dorian basks in a decadent lifestyle for years while his picture takes all the blames and gets uglier... to a point of no-return. By portraying a cruel, narcissistic and amoral character, Wilde offers his readers a still contemporary critique of hedonistic behaviors and the superficiality and blindness of those who adopt this way of living.
The story happens during the Victorian era, around the figure of the young and very handsome lad Dorian Gray. After becoming the model and muse of Basil Hallward, a sensitive painter, Gray is so enthralled by his portrait that he implicitly makes a deal with the devil ; he wished for the picture to grow old in his place so he can remain untouched by the marks of time. But every pact has a catch... Influenced by his mentor Lord Henry and his hedonistic world view, Dorian basks in a decadent lifestyle for years while his picture takes all the blames and gets uglier... to a point of no-return. By portraying a cruel, narcissistic and amoral character, Wilde offers his readers a still contemporary critique of hedonistic behaviors and the superficiality and blindness of those who adopt this way of living.
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde est né à Dublin, en Irlande. Son père est chirurgien, sa mère est poétesse et traductrice d'auteurs français (Dumas et Lamartine). Il fait ses études au Trinity College de Dublin puis à Oxford, en Angleterre. Grâce à son élégance et à sa vivacité d'esprit, il devient vite un auteur très apprécié en Grande-Bretagne, mais aussi en France où il est salué par les milieux littéraires. Ses poésies, ses contes, ses histoires, son roman ("Le Portrait de Dorian Gray") et ses pièces de théâtre - dont l'une "Salomé" est écrite en français, est créée par Sarah Bernhardt - assurent son succès. Il est alors reconnu comme le chef de file de ce que l'on a appelé "le culte esthétique" : extrême raffinement, amour exclusif des belles choses, attitude détachée. Mais sa vie bascule en 1895 ; lorsqu'il est condamné à deux ans de travaux forcés dans une Angleterre victorienne très puritaine. Refusant de fuir, il purge sa peine et sort brisé du bagne. Il est désormais un homme ruiné, exclu de la société. Il finit misérablement sa vie à Paris où il meurt le 30 novembre 1900, à 46 ans d'une méningite. Ses derniers mots, dans une chambre d'hôtel au décor miteux (hôtel d'Alsace, 13, rue des Beaux-Arts à Paris) auraient été : "Ou c'est ce papier peint qui disparaît, ou c'est moi".
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