by Oscar Wilde · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789727083916
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«O Retrato de Dorian Gray» is Oscar Wilde's Gothic novel, published by Relógio D'Água in paperback (278 pages, in Portuguese).
Dorian Gray wishes that a portrait of him would grow old in his place so he can preserve his beauty. The wish is fulfilled and, while he indulges in excess, the painting accumulates the marks of his moral degradation while his face remains intact. The novel is a meditation on aesthetics, beauty and conscience.
The work was originally published in 1890. This Portuguese edition is from 1998 and includes a translation by Margarida Vale de Gato.
For readers looking for a classic of aestheticism and Gothic literature, in a Portuguese version.
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.
