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“El retrato de Dorian Gray”, es la única novela de Wilde, y su autoría le reportó feroces críticas desde sectores
puritanos y conservadores debido a su tergiversación del tema de Fausto. En esta novela, Oscar Wilde 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. Este deseo se
traduce en un pacto que lleva a Dorian a cometer todo tipo de atrocidades, hasta llegar al crimen. A medida
que se desarrolla la novela y que el protagonista se sumerge en el vicio en contraposición con el desesperado
anhelo de eterna juventud, se presiente un final terrible. El retrato de Dorian Gray es una extensa alegoría que
sondea las profundidades del ser humano y cuya vigencia sorprende en cada nueva lectura de esta magistral
obra.
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About Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was born in Dublin. He won scholarships to both Trinity College, Dublin, and Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1875, he began publishing poetry in literary magazines, and in 1878, he won the coveted Newdigate Prize for English poetry. He had a reputation as a flamboyant wit and man-about-town. After his marriage to Constance Lloyd in 1884, he tried to establish himself as a writer, but with little initial success. However, his three volumes of short fiction, The Happy Prince, Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, and A House of Pomegranates, together with his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, gradually won him a reputation as a modern writer with an original talent. That reputation was confirmed and enhanced by the phenomenal success of his society comedies: Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest, all performed on London’s West End stage between 1892 and 1895. In 1895, he was convicted of engaging in homosexual acts, which were then illegal, and sentenced to two years imprisonment with hard labor. He soon declared bankruptcy, and his property was auctioned off. In 1896, he lost legal custody of his children. When his mother died that same year, his wife Constance visited him at the jail to bring him the news. It was the last time they saw each other. In the years after his release, his health deteriorated. In November 1900, he died in Paris at the age of forty-six.