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"No deploro ni un solo instante de los que he dedicado al placer. Lo hice plenamente, como deberíamos hacer todo lo que hacemos. No hubo placer que yo no experimentase; eché la perla de mi alma en una copa de vino; descendí por el sendero florido de margaritas al son de las flautas; viví de panales de miel. Pero continuar la misma vida hubiera sido un error, pero habría sido una limitación. Debía ir adelante; la otra mitad del jardín tenía también sus secretos para mí" Los cinco relatos reunidos en este volumen exploran esa otra mitad del jardín, la del dolor, la impiedad, el cinismo, así como la belleza, la ternura y el amor en su más pura expresión, todo matizado a través de su fino sentido del humor.
272 pages, Paperback
Published June 1, 2012
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Oscar Wilde
4,265 books38.8k followersOscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his criminal conviction for gross indecency for homosexual acts.
Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. In his youth, Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, he read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.
Wilde tried his hand at various literary activities: he wrote a play, published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on "The English Renaissance" in art and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he lectured on his American travels and wrote reviews for various periodicals. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). Wilde returned to drama, writing Salome (1891) in French while in Paris, but it was refused a licence for England due to an absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Undiscouraged, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late-Victorian London.
At the height of his fame and success, while An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) were still being performed in London, Wilde issued a civil writ against John Sholto Douglas, the 9th Marquess of Queensberry for criminal libel. The Marquess was the father of Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The libel hearings unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and criminal prosecution for gross indecency with other males. The jury was unable to reach a verdict and so a retrial was ordered. In the second trial Wilde was convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labour, the maximum penalty, and was jailed from 1895 to 1897. During his last year in prison he wrote De Profundis (published posthumously in abridged form in 1905), a long letter that discusses his spiritual journey through his trials and is a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. On the day of his release, he caught the overnight steamer to France, never to return to Britain or Ireland. In France and Italy, he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life.
Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. In his youth, Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, he read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.
Wilde tried his hand at various literary activities: he wrote a play, published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on "The English Renaissance" in art and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he lectured on his American travels and wrote reviews for various periodicals. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). Wilde returned to drama, writing Salome (1891) in French while in Paris, but it was refused a licence for England due to an absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Undiscouraged, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late-Victorian London.
At the height of his fame and success, while An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) were still being performed in London, Wilde issued a civil writ against John Sholto Douglas, the 9th Marquess of Queensberry for criminal libel. The Marquess was the father of Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The libel hearings unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and criminal prosecution for gross indecency with other males. The jury was unable to reach a verdict and so a retrial was ordered. In the second trial Wilde was convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labour, the maximum penalty, and was jailed from 1895 to 1897. During his last year in prison he wrote De Profundis (published posthumously in abridged form in 1905), a long letter that discusses his spiritual journey through his trials and is a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. On the day of his release, he caught the overnight steamer to France, never to return to Britain or Ireland. In France and Italy, he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life.
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January 24, 2021
Me ha llevado varios años leer al completo este recopilatorio de cuentos de Oscar Wilde pero al final lo he conseguido. No sé el motivo por el cual este libro no me ha terminado de enganchar, me encanta la prosa de Wilde y estos cuentos son bastante variados, casi todos con un tono que recuerda a los cuentos tradicionales de los hermanos Grimm y a Andersen que tanto me gustan.
Destaco muchísimo de entre todos los cuentos 'El crimen de lord Arthur Savile' que me ha encantado, me ha parecido divertidísimo, me ha conquistado la ironía y el sentido del humor de este relato.
Otro de los cuentos que destaco es 'El fantasma de Canterville' que ha sido una relectura que he disfrutado mucho más que en la primera ocasión que lo leí.
'El pescador y su alma' me ha precido un relato precioso en el que un pescador se enamora perdidamente de una sirena pero para estar junto a ella tiene que renunciar a su alma.
Estos son los últimos relatos que he leído de esta colección y son los que más he disfrutado y los que mejor recuerdo. Eso sí, todos están escritos con el estilo cuidado y delicado que tanto caracteriza al autor y creo que aunque no todos los cuentos me han emocionado es una buena opción para estrenarse con Wilde.
Destaco muchísimo de entre todos los cuentos 'El crimen de lord Arthur Savile' que me ha encantado, me ha parecido divertidísimo, me ha conquistado la ironía y el sentido del humor de este relato.
Otro de los cuentos que destaco es 'El fantasma de Canterville' que ha sido una relectura que he disfrutado mucho más que en la primera ocasión que lo leí.
'El pescador y su alma' me ha precido un relato precioso en el que un pescador se enamora perdidamente de una sirena pero para estar junto a ella tiene que renunciar a su alma.
Estos son los últimos relatos que he leído de esta colección y son los que más he disfrutado y los que mejor recuerdo. Eso sí, todos están escritos con el estilo cuidado y delicado que tanto caracteriza al autor y creo que aunque no todos los cuentos me han emocionado es una buena opción para estrenarse con Wilde.
June 7, 2012
Dejando de lado un único relato de los que vienen que no me ha gustado mucho y me pareció un poco pesado, todos los demás son una pura delicia. Las moralejas que contienen, la forma de narrar, pensar en la fecha en la que fueron escritos... Increíble y absolutamente brillante <3
July 30, 2014
La mayoría son muy bonitos, hay un par que son preciosos y otros que no me han gustado tanto, pero en general es un librito que recomiendo a todo el mundo.
May 14, 2014
En el futuro, que los que vengan a jugar conmigo no tengan corazón.
October 28, 2014
"Los actores son más afortunados a este respecto: pueden elegir entre representar una tragedia o una comedia, entre sufrir o divertirse, reír o derramar lágrimas. Pero en la vida real es diferente: la mayoría de los hombres y de las mujeres están obligados a representar papeles para los que no están cualificados. Nuestros Guidensterns hacen el papel de Hamlet, y nuestros Hamlets tienen que bromear como el príncipe Hal. El mundo es un escenario, pero la obra tiene un mal reparto"
El crimen de Lord Arthur Savile
El crimen de Lord Arthur Savile
July 10, 2023
no lo leí hace tanto tiempo como para permitirme haberlo olvidado TANTO, pero recuerdo que este wey tenía un señor talento para ponerte justo donde él necesita que estés dentro de sus historias.
que soporte el que ganó el premio de literatura con su cuento escrito en puros emojis.
4.1/5 ⭐️
que soporte el que ganó el premio de literatura con su cuento escrito en puros emojis.
4.1/5 ⭐️
February 14, 2013
Me ha encantado esta recopilación de cuentos del autor, llenos de sensibilidad y moralejas para quedarse pensando (aunque debo advertir que no son para un lector que está buscando finales felices).
January 11, 2014
Perfect <3
September 13, 2014
3.5.
La gran mayoría de los cuentos son dulces y encantadores, pero los relatos largos del final se me han hecho aburridos y he sentido que no pegaban con el resto del libro.
La gran mayoría de los cuentos son dulces y encantadores, pero los relatos largos del final se me han hecho aburridos y he sentido que no pegaban con el resto del libro.
May 13, 2020
Prosa sencilla, delicada y clara. Cuentos que apenas envejecen. Hay ironía, fantasía, fábula, amor... Lectura muy recomendable.
June 19, 2023
Único. Aunque no todos los cuentos llegan de la misma manera.
March 12, 2024
No sóc gaire fanàtic dels llibres de contes però aquest m’ha fet el pes sobretot gràcies al entretingut relat del fantasma de Canterville.
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