Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray A Reader's Edition
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Produktdetails
Verkaufsrang
40035
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.08.2012
Herausgeber
Nicholas FrankelVerlag
Harvard University PressSeitenzahl
257
Maße (L/B/H)
13,8/20,8/2 cm
Gewicht
248 g
Farbe
Schwarz / Messing
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-674-06631-1
"Now, for the first time, we can read the version that Wilde intended...Both the text and Nicholas Frankel's introduction make for fascinating reading." -Paris Review
More than 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in a paperback edition. This volume restores all of the material removed by the book's first editor.
Upon receipt of the typescript, Wilde's editor panicked at what he saw. Contained within its pages was material he feared readers would find "offensive"-especially instances of explicit homosexual content. He proceeded to go through the typescript with his pencil, cleaning it up until he made it "acceptable to the most fastidious taste." Wilde did not see these changes until his novel appeared in print. Wilde's editor's concern was well placed. Even in its redacted form, the novel caused public outcry. The British press condemned it as "vulgar," "unclean," "poisonous," "discreditable," and "a sham." When Wilde later enlarged the novel for publication in book form, he responded to his critics by further toning down its "immoral" elements.
Wilde famously said that The Picture of Dorian Gray "contains much of me": Basil Hallward is "what I think I am," Lord Henry "what the world thinks me," and "Dorian what I would like to be-in other ages, perhaps." Wilde's comment suggests a backward glance to a Greek or Dorian Age, but also a forward-looking view to a more permissive time than his own repressive Victorian era. By implication, Wilde would have preferred we read the uncensored version of his novel today.
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Beautifully haunting. I definetly...
Beautifully haunting. I definetly prefer this version over the regular one. There's nothing explicit in here but words like "romance" are used to describe Basil's feelings towards Dorian, which make the story itself feel much more genuine and true to Oscar Wilde original vision.
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