A complete uncensored edition of « Dorian Gray Portrait » came out
« The Portrait of Dorian Gray » – the only Oscar Wilde novel, which has been repeatedly published in Bulgaria, adapted to cinema and theater, has a new edition, the Hummingbird Publishing House reported. The translation is by Rositsa Tasheva.
« Magnly illustrated by Benjamin Lacomb and enriched with excerpts from the epistolary confession De profundis, This edition sheds a new light on the work, which has become a monument to literature, « the publishing house said.
The novel was greeted with merciless criticism since its release in 1890 – it was defined as « a poisonous book whose atmosphere radiates the foul smells of moral and spiritual decay. » The theme of homosexuality explodes Victorian England and Oscar Wilde’s work is twice censored and the author is thrown behind bars and dies shortly after.
However, the new edition of Hummingbird presents the novel in its full original version.
| « Inappropriately related to the reputation and the very existence of its author, » Dorian Gray’s portrait « often acquires the appearance of a self -portrait of a Wilde, who likes to mix the silent and revealed. The censored passages included in the present edition of her own and the malewrites in the preface Xavier Judicelli, a nineteenth-century British literature lecturer at the University of Paris-Nanther, a specialist in the creativity of the Irish writer, poet and playwright. |
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) is defined as one of the greatest minds in the history of humanity, and his wit is compared only to Shakespeare. His fame is mainly due to his brilliant plays and epigrams, to the novel « The Portrait of Dorian Gray » (1890), and to some extent to the circumstances related to his deprivation of liberty and his early death. He is the author of two collections of fairy tales – « The Happy Prince » and Other Stories « (1888) and » The House of Nations « (1892), which are still reissued to this day.
The Hummingbird Publishing House has provided a Diary quotes from the uncensored edition of Dorian Gray Portrait.
Oscar Wilde, the wild paradoxical
From the « Dorian Gray Portrait »
One day I decided to draw your portrait. He had to be my masterpiece. He is my masterpiece. But as I worked, every fat, every color applied seemed to reveal my secret. There was love in every line, there was a passion in every point. I was begging the world not to know the extent to which I have degraded. I felt, Dorian, that I said too much. Then it was I decided to never expose the picture.
But even the boldest of us are afraid of ourselves. We crippled a savage in us, but he tragically survived the self -denial that ruins our lives. We have denied ourselves and punished for it. Every impulse we try to stifle our minds. Once sinned, the body gets rid of sin, because the sins themselves are a type of purification. Then we are left with the memory of the experience or the luxury of regretting the unhappy. The only way to get rid of the temptation is by succumbing to it. If we resist him, our soul becomes sick with the longing for what she has forbidden, a desire for what her own monstrous laws have declared as monstrous and illegal. It is said that the most important events occur in the brain. In the brain and only in the brain, the greatest sins occur.
There is only one worse thing in the world than talking about you, and it is not to talk about you.
True beauty ends where intellect begins.
« De profundis: voice from the abyss » by Oscar Wilde (excerpt)
I am able to believe everything, as long as it is not for belief.
With a frac and a white tie, as you told me once, even the stock agent can go for a civilized.
Consciousness and fear are the same thing, Basil. Consciousness is the trademark of the company, that’s all.
Laughter is not bad for starting a friendship and is even better for its end.
I choose my friends because of their beautiful appearance, their acquaintances for their good character, their enemies for their minds. One must be very careful about choosing his enemies. There is not a single fool among mine. They all have considerable intelligence, so everyone appreciates me.
