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While ending the nineteenth s, Dorian Gray, a young dandy initiates his youth to the great world of London, asking for Basil Hallward, innovative and passionate painter, who takes a boundless fascination for his model, in which he seems to see the purity and innocence, disappeared from his century and his company.
Conversely, his friend Lord Henry likes to discover the young man all the irony of the superficial world they inhabit, and the subtle art of psychological manipulation.
Managing to unravel the workings of society life beyond all expectations of Lord Henry, Dorian Gray operates as an eternal spoiled child, and for good reason, the aging was carried out by Hallward and accuses the petty rictus of sin and age, while Dorian Gray remains adorned with all the attributes of youth and innocence that the painter had so desired it embodies.

The "Portrait of Dorian Gray" is ultimately a double history: that of a man who believes as the purity and innocence still exists, and that of a man who understands that the time is no longer his considerations but individualism and survival.
Their purpose, at points close and dramatic, is the hallmark of their respective failures but also the staging of a certain impasse. Is there always a perspective between these two pitfalls? The one finally possible, lies in the cynical observation, acid resignation as evidenced by Lord Henry, nihilistic spectator of a world in ruins. And finally what's less surprising when you consider how stalemate, in which prison, Oscar Wilde finishes himself?

In a fantasy novel, lucid, Oscar Wilde shows us what is the schizophrenia of an entire society, before being that of a man.