by Oscar Wilde · Flammarion · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782080713018
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«Le Portrait de Dorian Gray» is Oscar Wilde's gothic novel, published by Flammarion in paperback (320 pages, in French).
Dorian Gray, a young man of extraordinary beauty, becomes fascinated by his portrait and wishes that the canvas would age in his place. The wish comes true: Dorian retains his youth while the painting accumulates the traces of his life of excess and cruelty. Oscar Wilde's only novel is a reflection on beauty, hedonism, and moral conscience.
Translation by Richard Crevier and introduction by Pascal Aquien, in the GF Flammarion collection (no. 1301). Corrected and updated edition in 2006.
For readers who want to read this classic of English literature by Oscar Wilde in French.
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is widely regarded as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency and for practicing homosexual acts.
