Resultados para "The Picture of Dorian Gray" en Literatura y ficción

"If it were I who were to be always young and the picture to grow old, I would give my soul for it." So says Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde's brilliant creation who sells his soul for youth and beauty.

Cuando se publicó "El retrato de Dorian Gray", la crítica moralizante acusó a su protagonista de ser una figura satánica, corrompida y corruptora, sin comprender que era el héroe de una novela que reflejaba la fatalidad de los románticos: Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) había querido hacer de la belleza un refinamiento de la inteligencia; y para ello sumió a su protagonista en una atmósfera de perversión dominada por el arte y los poderes de un misterio que está más allá de la realidad.

A disturbing tale of a young man's uncanny ability to remain both young and beautiful while descending into a life of heartless debauchery, The Picture of Dorian Gray was considered proof of both Wilde's genius and his perversion. Oscar Wilde's scandalous best seller of 1891 was one of the most damning pieces of evidence used against him in the trial that brought about his downfall.

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a dark and elegant classic about beauty, corruption, vanity, desire, and the hidden cost of a life devoted only to pleasure. The story follows Dorian Gray, a young man of extraordinary beauty whose portrait mysteriously bears the marks of age, sin, and moral decay while he remains outwardly unchanged. As Dorian moves through a world of art, luxury, temptation, and influence, his life becomes a disturbing meditation on appearance, conscience, and the soul.

En primavera de 1890 Oscar Wilde envió su primera novela al Lippincot’s Monthly Magazine. Escandalizado por su contenido, el director de la revista eliminó las huellas de homosexualidad del pintor Basil Halleward hacia Dorian Gray, junto a otras conductas heterosexuales muy avanzadas para la...

Dorian es un joven muy atractivo y refinado a quien su amigo y pintor, Basil, retrata en un cuadro. Lord Henry, otro joven, amigo de los dos, asegura que el cuadro es el mejor que ha pintado Basil, ya que ha sido capaz de plasmar a la perfección la juventud y lozanía de la belleza de Dorian. Al ver ese perfecto reflejo de sí mismo en el cuadro, Dorian siente pánico de perder esa belleza y juventud, que sabe que inevitablemente se irán marchitando con el implacable devenir del tiempo.

Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. En esta novela, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) indaga sobre el mito de la eterna juventud, al recrear el tema de un pacto diabólico para conservar la belleza y permanecer eternamente joven.Un pintor queda fascinado por la extraordinaria hermosura de Dorian, su joven modelo, que vive en plena era victoriana satisfaciendo todos sus deseos, sin límites ni prejuicios.El pintor declara que sería dichoso si Dorian pudiese permanecer para siempre exactamente como es.

The timeless story of the beatific Dorian Gray, who never seems to age, and whose features never show the stains of life, no matter how debauched his existence becomes. What is is his secret? And what is the secret of a certain portrait that he keeps forever hidden, behind a curtain, in a locked...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if beauty could remain untouched while the soul beneath it decayed in secret? In *The Picture of Dorian Gray*, Oscar Wilde creates one of the most seductive and unsettling novels of the nineteenth century: a Gothic masterpiece of art, vanity...

Celebrated Irish dramatist and wit Oscar Wilde-best known for his poetry and his stage comedies-managed to complete only one novel during his career, The Picture of Dorian Gray, a brilliant and (at the time) scandalous narrative, in which Wilde explores the life of a young man who sells his soul in order to live the profligate life of an avowed hedonist. Through a bit of supernatural magic, Dorian is given a portrait of himself that reflects his sinful and destructive ways while Dorian himself remains as alluring and attractive as the day the painting was created.

This extended moralistic fable, Oscar Wilde's longest work of fiction, was first published in 1890. It may be described as a tragedy of manners, in which a wealthy young man, endowed with great powers of physical and personal attractiveness, embarks on a hectic course of life which brings destruction to many around him, and ultimately to himself.

Dorian Gray has a portrait in oil done by Basil Hallward, an artist impressed and infatuated by Dorian's beauty; he believes that Dorian's beauty is responsible for the new mood in his art as a painter. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry and soon falls into his hedonistic worldview: that beauty and sensual fulfillment are the only things worth pursuing in life.

Step into a world where beauty conceals corruption and every whispered secret sends ripples through the surface of polite society. Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray stands as one of literature's most brilliant and haunting meditations on vanity, morality, and the eternal struggle between outward appearance and inner reality.

The Picture of Dorian GrayIn the heart of Victorian London, the young and innocent Dorian Gray becomes captivated by his own portrait, painted by Basil Hallward. Under the influence of the cynical and hedonistic Lord Henry Wotton, Dorian makes a desperate wish: that the canvas age and bear the scars of his sins, while he retains his eternal youth. This macabre desire comes true, unleashing a dark spiral of vice, cruelty, and moral decay.

Dorian Gray, un joven de inigualable belleza, queda cautivado por una filosofía hedonista y realiza un deseo fatídico: que su retrato envejezca en su lugar, mientras él permanece eternamente joven. Este deseo se convierte en realidad, y con cada acto inmoral, su retrato se transforma grotescamente, reflejando la decadencia de su alma.

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.

After the artist Basil Hallward paints his portrait, Dorian Gray frivolously wishes that the picture change, yet he remain the same. Allured by his perverted friend, Henry Wotton, Gray jumps into a life of depravity and sin. With each sin Dorian commits, the painting of him grows increasingly hideous, showing him what is happening to his soul.

Dorian Gray does get what he wished for in trading places with Basil Hallward's portrait of him. Yes, eternal youth spells quite a different picture for one who falls under its spell.

The classic Oscar Wilde story brought to life. "The Picture of Dorian Gray" begins on a beautiful summer day in Victorian era England, where Lord Henry Wotton, an opinionated man, is observing the sensitive artist Basil Hallward painting the portrait of Dorian Gray, a handsome young man who is Basil's ultimate muse.

La familia hasta la muerte. Dorian V. es un joven aspirante a escritor incapaz de cumplir con las expectativas de su familia. La repentina muerte de su abuelo lo obliga a volver a casa, donde su tío, el diputado John V., tomó el control de la familia y lo reemplazó con su nuevo protegido...