Portrait of Dorian Gray
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Portrait of Dorian Gray
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Oscar Wilde is rightly considered an iconic figure of European modernism. Born in 1854 in the family of a successful British doctor, the future writer was immersed from childhood in the artistic atmosphere that created in the family of his mother. Even then, Oscar was called a prodigy. Unlearning his Irish pronunciation at Oxford, he began to surround his life with legends, in which fiction was sometimes difficult to distinguish from the truth. In London, Wilde quickly became a star of the aristocratic salons. Everything in this man was unusual - the attire of the artist, impeccable diction, wit, paradoxical judgments and fine artistic taste.
His first collection of poems, written under the influence of friends-artists Pre-Raphaelite, Wilde printed at his own expense in 1881. Ten years later, after trips to Italy and the United States, the young writer knew all of London. However, the most grandiose success came to Wilde in 1890 after the publication of a single novel - "The Portrait of Dorian Gray". This collection begins with this landmark work. The text of the novel, which caused a wave of criticism immediately after its appearance in print, is given in full, without bills, in a rare translation by the brother of the famous philosopher - polyglot Sergei Alexandrovich Berdyaev, who managed to amazingly accurately convey the decadent atmosphere of this mystical work, which became a kind of manifesto of aesthetics. He is also the translator of Wilde's letters in defense of "The Portrait of Dorian Gray". Curiously, in "Portrait" the vices of the protagonist, who in many ways resembles a modern Faust, are not specifically described. Each reader is free to imagine them in his own way. A man of inner freedom and relaxed, Wilde was sentenced in 1895 to imprisonment for behavior that in his time was considered immoral. After a two-year imprisonment that ruined his family life, Wilde went to France, where he wrote "The Ballad of Reading Prison," which is also included in this collection in a translation by Valery Bryusov. Others
His first collection of poems, written under the influence of friends-artists Pre-Raphaelite, Wilde printed at his own expense in 1881. Ten years later, after trips to Italy and the United States, the young writer knew all of London. However, the most grandiose success came to Wilde in 1890 after the publication of a single novel - "The Portrait of Dorian Gray". This collection begins with this landmark work. The text of the novel, which caused a wave of criticism immediately after its appearance in print, is given in full, without bills, in a rare translation by the brother of the famous philosopher - polyglot Sergei Alexandrovich Berdyaev, who managed to amazingly accurately convey the decadent atmosphere of this mystical work, which became a kind of manifesto of aesthetics. He is also the translator of Wilde's letters in defense of "The Portrait of Dorian Gray". Curiously, in "Portrait" the vices of the protagonist, who in many ways resembles a modern Faust, are not specifically described. Each reader is free to imagine them in his own way. A man of inner freedom and relaxed, Wilde was sentenced in 1895 to imprisonment for behavior that in his time was considered immoral. After a two-year imprisonment that ruined his family life, Wilde went to France, where he wrote "The Ballad of Reading Prison," which is also included in this collection in a translation by Valery Bryusov. Others
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