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Oscar Wilde hace un retrato divertido y asombroso en el que urde una comedia brillante y un alegato enérgico contra la superstición. Lord Arturo Saville, un joven acomodado y con un brillante porvenir, acude, acompañado de su prometida, a una recepcion organizada por lady Windermere. Alli, el quiromantico de la anfitriona, despues de leer su mano, le anuncia que cometera un asesinato. Anticipandose a su destino, el joven concibe la idea de llevar a cabo tal proposito con objeto de pasar pagina y de continuar adelante con sus planes de boda, sin embargo, sus sucesivos intentos resultaran infructuosos. Wilde, con su ingenio habitual, nos ofrece un relato intrigante y divertido que no oculta, ademas, una critica mordaz al esoterismo y a ciertas costumbres de la epoca.

Éste es un libro lleno de fascinación y encanto, fácil y difícil a la vez, y cuyo encanto, fácil y difícil a la vez, y cuyo único protagonista y tema esencial es la Belleza. Una de las pasiones que h

El presente volumen pretende rendir homenaje al arte y al ingenio de Oscar Wilde, dos palabras unidas irremediablemente a su nombre, a su estética y a su vida. A este fin se ha llevado a cabo una amplia seleccion de sus frases, opiniones y ocurrencias mas brillantes, entresacandolas de sus obras de teatro, cuentos, ensayos, correspondencia y de los testimonios orales que sus contertulios u ocasionales oyentes han legado a la posteridad. Asi pues, el lector no debe buscar en este libro una radiografia del pensamiento de Oscar Wilde, oculto siempre tras la mascara, sino la brillante superficie donde aflora vivo el arte del ingenio.

'I have nothing to declare,' Wilde once told an American customs official, 'except my genius.' A good part of that genius is evident in the essays and poems included in this volume. There is the intellectual genius of The Soul of Man under Socialism, in which he clearly foresaw the dangers of economic bureaucracy and state-worship: for Wilde socialism meant liberation and individuality, not enslavement. Then there is the emotional genius of De Profundis, the long, introspective and often hostile letter he addressed to Lord Alfred Douglas from prison. And there is the poetical genius of The Ballad of Reading Gaol, in which Wilde's generous nature could movingly express for another's misery the sorrow he found it hard to express for his own. This collection contains, too, many examples of that humorous and epigrammic genius which captured the London theatre and which, by suddenly casting light from an unexpected angle, widened the bounds of truth.

"La gente tiene un afán insaciable de saberlo todo, menos lo que vale la pena saber".

Oscar Wilde's poetry and plays have been entertaining readers and audiences for over a century, and for good reason. His infectious personality shows through his bitingly witty, satirical plays and bittersweet poems, making them endlessly compelling, unapologetically blunt and even melancholy. This collection of Oscar Wilde's genius poems follows the tradition of classical publications at Arcturus Publishing.

In The Critic as Artistarguably the most complete exploration of his aesthetic thinking, and certainly the most entertainingOscar Wilde harnesses his famous wit to demolish the supposed boundary between art and criticism.Subtitled Upon the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything, the essay takes the form of a leisurely dialogue between two characters: Ernest, who insists upon Wildes own belief in arts freedom from societal mandates and values, and a quizzical Gilbert. With his playwrights ear for dialogue, Wilde champions idleness and contemplation as prerequisites to artistic cultivation. Beyond the well-known dictum of art for arts sake, Wildes originality lays an argument for the equality of criticism and art. For him, criticism is not subject to the work of art, but can in fact precede it: the artist cannot create without engaging his or her critical faculties first. And, as Wilde writes, To the critic the work of art is simply a suggestion for a new work of his own.The field of art and criticism should be open to the free play of the mind, but Wilde plays seriously, even prophetically. Writing in 1891, he foresaw that criticism would have an increasingly important role as the need to make sense of what we see increases with the complexities of modern life. It is only the fine perception and explication of beauty, Wilde suggests, that will allow us to create meaning, joy, empathy and peace out of the chaos of facts and reality.Oscar Wilde (18541900) was an Irish poet and playwright who became one of Londons most popular writers in the early 1890s. Though often controversial, his flair for journalism and nose for scandal ensured that he was widely read. His bold essays on aesthetic philosophy, collected in the volume Intentions (1891), remain important and influential meditations of the nature of art criticism itself.

Oscar Wilde (Dublín 1854 - París 1900) Dramaturg, novel·lista, poeta i assagista irlandès en llengua anglesa. Estudià al Trinity College de Dublín, i més tard a Oxford, on sobresortí en els estudis c

RETRATO DE DORIAN GRAY,EL es un libro del autor WILDE,OSCAR editado por BIBLOK. RETRATO DE DORIAN GRAY,EL tiene un c�digo EAN 9788494821448, de la colecci�n SELECTA.

"The Picture of Dorian Gray was written by Irish author Oscar Wilde (1854-1900).A young man named Dorian Gray is swayed by the hedonistic worldview of his new social circle and begins to live the life of a libertine in the constant search for pleasure. The novel explores very complex philosophical themes, such as the duplicity of the human soul and the reverence for beauty and pleasure.The Picture of Dorian Gray caused outrage in British reviewers and readers alike for its alleged immorality and indecency, and sparked in Oscar Wilde a furious defence of the creative process and the importance of freedom in artistic expression."

Who would have thought a comedy of manners written more than a hundred years ago would still be so apt and so funny? Oscar Wilde was a genius of play writing, and his deftness, wit and sharp eye for social satire keep audiences in thrall to this day. Alongside Earnest, discover a biblical tragedy retold, Lady Windemere and her infamous fan and Wilde's take on an ideal husband, in this selection of Wilde's most important plays.

«J'ai mis tout mon génie dans ma vie; je n'ai mis que mon talent dans mon œuvre.» L'art ou la vie? Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) – pour qui écrire c'est peindre, sculpter – hésita tout au long de son exi

Una sofisticada familia norteamericana compra el antiguo castillo inglés de los Canterville. El anciano dueño les cuenta que en la mansión habita, desde tiempos inmemoriales, el colérico fantasma de lord Simon Canterville, que mato a su esposa y que desaparecio despues misteriosamente. Lejos de amedrentarse, los inquilinos compran el castillo con fantasma incluido y someten al pobre espectro anacronico, que acaba siendo juguete y victima de los dos niños terribles de la familia. Tal vez sea El fantasma de Canterville el cuento mas conocido y celebrado de Wilde, que ha pasado a la lista de obras inolvidables y fundamentales de la literatura universal

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's' Lady Windermere has a happy marriage - or, at least, that's what she believes until one of London society's gossips, the Duchess of Berwick, arrives with her daughter to voice her suspicions about an affair Lord Windermere appears to be having. It's not just the Duchess who has evidence, however. Windermere's private bank book shows that he's been giving large sums of money to a 'Mrs Erlynne' - on frequent occasions - and he himself even admits to seeing much of the woman. To add insult to injury, Windermere insists that Mrs Erlynne is invited to the ball that is being held for Lady Windermere's birthday. Employing the witty dialogue, social satire and outrageous paradox for which he is still remembered, Wilde's play shows us the destructiveness of gossip and superficial judgement, examines the ambiguous sexual morality and gender politics at the heart of the British ruling class, while simultaneously challenging our perceptions of what constitutes a 'good woman'. This student edition contains a fully annotated version of the playtext. The introduction includes an account of Wilde's life and a detailed analysis of Lady Windermere's Fan as well as its stage history. Ian Small is Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of a number of critical studies on Wilde and has edited several of Wilde's works, including a scholarly edition of Wilde's second society comedy, A Woman of No Importance, also published in the New Mermaids series.

Los cuentos de Wilde son cuentos con moraleja, a pesar deque el mismo creyera que "elarte es completamente inútil".Su elegante y atildada elaboración está puesta al serviciode una idea previa, o menudo referida al sentido del arte y surelacion con el hombre o al papel del artista en el mundo. Sinembargo, que nadie se engañe no son simples cuentos.Poesia,belleza, evocaciones del rnundo narrativo infantil, alegorias,per-sonajes miticos, forman un intrincado bosque de significados sim-bolicos que solo adquieren perfiles reconocibles en lasubjetividaddel lector "Todo arte-escribio Wilde- es a la vezsuperficie ysimbolo. Los que busan bajo lasuperficie lo hacen por su cuentay riesgo. Lo mismo les acontece a losque intentan comprender elsimbolo. No es la vida, sinoal espectador a quien refleja real-mente el arle".

Los buenos novelistas —escribió Oscar Wilde— son mucho más raros que los buenos hijos. Quizá sería lícito añadir que los buenos cuentistas son aún más raros que los buenos novelistas. Antes que El re