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Los mejores cuentos de Oscar Wilde: Selección de cuentos (Los mejores cuentos de…)
Descubra los mejores cuentos de Oscar Wilde.En la presente edición, hemos recopilado los que para nosotros, y para la mayoría de la crítica literaria internacional, son los mejores cuentos que Oscar Wilde llegó a escribir en su breve pero intensa vida. Aquí encontrará (cómo no) El fantasma de Canterville, posiblemente su relato corto más conocido y reconocido. Es una historia que llega al alma y que esperamos que, en esta nueva y fresca traducción al castellano, nos permita saborear absolutamente todos los matices que Wilde transfirió al original. Wilde tenía la capacidad de meterse dentro del alma de las personas, tenía el don de "leer" las razones de los comportamientos humanos. Sus personajes, sin duda alguna, están cargados de "verdad". También encontrará en estas páginas otros relatos destacados dentro de la producción del escritor Irlandés, El príncipe feliz, obra maestra donde las haya, o El ruiseñor y la rosa, La esfinge sin secreto o El gigante egoísta, entre otros.Sumérjase en estos cuentos clásicos y déjese llevar por la historia.
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Published April 21, 2021
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Oscar Wilde
5,642 books39.1k 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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September 2, 2024
Este libro me dejó muy contrariada en diversos sentidos. Por un lado, los primeros cuentos son lo mejor, especialmente los primeros 4, que me dejaron perpleja con su lectura sencilla, historias atrapantes y excelentes finales con hermosas moralejas.
Por otro lado, mientras más avanzas, menos atrapantes se vuelven los cuentos, los personajes se vuelven menos interesantes, las moralejas se vuelven demasiado obvias y repetitivas; pero cuando llegué a El Joven Rey, me sentí enojada por el Deus ex machina del final.
Tal vez regrese a leerlo, tal vez solo los cuentos que me gustaron, y tal vez para leer los que me faltaron; pero por el momento, marco este libro como terminado porque ya no lo pienso seguir leyendo.
Por otro lado, mientras más avanzas, menos atrapantes se vuelven los cuentos, los personajes se vuelven menos interesantes, las moralejas se vuelven demasiado obvias y repetitivas; pero cuando llegué a El Joven Rey, me sentí enojada por el Deus ex machina del final.
Tal vez regrese a leerlo, tal vez solo los cuentos que me gustaron, y tal vez para leer los que me faltaron; pero por el momento, marco este libro como terminado porque ya no lo pienso seguir leyendo.
May 3, 2022
He leído el cuento El pescador y su alma. Una fábula bonita y triste , bien narrada , con mucho fondo psicológico , sobre que pesa más en importancia si el amor o el alma , y otros valores de la vida .
Es una lucha increccendo del personaje que desea tener algo y no importa dar lo más importante que posee , se vislumbra que la historia es un drama . Me recordó de otra forma a El príncipe valiente , cuento que leímos e interpretamos en el colegio.
En resumen a mí me gusta Wilde, aunque le prefiero en humor y teatro , pero admiro la capacidad creativa que tenía el autor .
Es una lucha increccendo del personaje que desea tener algo y no importa dar lo más importante que posee , se vislumbra que la historia es un drama . Me recordó de otra forma a El príncipe valiente , cuento que leímos e interpretamos en el colegio.
En resumen a mí me gusta Wilde, aunque le prefiero en humor y teatro , pero admiro la capacidad creativa que tenía el autor .
September 11, 2024
I love Oscar Wilde with all my heart. His writing has been an inspiration for the way I write; I adore it, I love his beautiful metaphors about life. My favorite story is “The Happy Prince,” which was one of the first stories read to me as a child. Although it’s a sad story, it touches your heart in the end. All of Oscar Wilde’s stories have a very beautiful lesson. He is my favorite writer in this genre.
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