by Oscar Wilde · MESTAS Ediciones, S.L. · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788410067783
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Few works have unleashed as much controversy and fascination as Salomé, the scandalous drama with which Oscar Wilde set European stages on fire and challenged the aesthetic and moral values of his time. With dazzling writing, marked by sensuality and contained violence, this short tragedy unfolds as a poetic and perverse ritual that touches both the sacred and the sacrilegious.
The story, inspired by the Gospels but overflowing with Wilde's provocative genius, revolves around forbidden desire, obsession, and the power of the gaze. Salomé, young and enigmatic, turns her dance into a weapon of seduction and condemnation, while beauty and horror embrace in an implacable climax that still shocks today. It is a sharp reflection on the corruption of desire, the arbitrariness of punishment, and art as a form of absolute transgression.
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.
