A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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書排版緊湊,輕巧便於攜帶,因此好多章節都是在火車上完成的。然而這本書並沒有安慰我的旅途,並沒有給我愉悅的閱讀感受。很顯然,王爾德並不是一個擅於講故事的人,情節的架構不免突兀和失真,人物形象並不飽滿立體。Lord Henry在某種程度上有作者自身的影子,是一個擅於玩文...
評分書排版緊湊,輕巧便於攜帶,因此好多章節都是在火車上完成的。然而這本書並沒有安慰我的旅途,並沒有給我愉悅的閱讀感受。很顯然,王爾德並不是一個擅於講故事的人,情節的架構不免突兀和失真,人物形象並不飽滿立體。Lord Henry在某種程度上有作者自身的影子,是一個擅於玩文...
評分書排版緊湊,輕巧便於攜帶,因此好多章節都是在火車上完成的。然而這本書並沒有安慰我的旅途,並沒有給我愉悅的閱讀感受。很顯然,王爾德並不是一個擅於講故事的人,情節的架構不免突兀和失真,人物形象並不飽滿立體。Lord Henry在某種程度上有作者自身的影子,是一個擅於玩文...
評分書排版緊湊,輕巧便於攜帶,因此好多章節都是在火車上完成的。然而這本書並沒有安慰我的旅途,並沒有給我愉悅的閱讀感受。很顯然,王爾德並不是一個擅於講故事的人,情節的架構不免突兀和失真,人物形象並不飽滿立體。Lord Henry在某種程度上有作者自身的影子,是一個擅於玩文...
評分書排版緊湊,輕巧便於攜帶,因此好多章節都是在火車上完成的。然而這本書並沒有安慰我的旅途,並沒有給我愉悅的閱讀感受。很顯然,王爾德並不是一個擅於講故事的人,情節的架構不免突兀和失真,人物形象並不飽滿立體。Lord Henry在某種程度上有作者自身的影子,是一個擅於玩文...
圖書標籤: 王爾德 英國 王爾德 Wilde 藝術 小說 classic 英國
不想說 看!!!
評分overwhelming
評分不想說 看!!!
評分Wilde is a genius!
評分看的英文版,其實隻是看懂瞭大概情節,印象書中段有大段描寫沒看懂,大抵講的是Dorian是怎麼墮落的
The Picture of Dorian Gray (PPC) 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載