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Nouvelles fantastiques
« C'est en 1887 qu'Oscar Wilde publia en revue les quatre contes fantastiques que voici. Ils furent réunis en volume pour la première fois au cours de la terrible et féconde année 1891 qui vit la rencontre de l'écrivain avec son destin. Le spectre des Canterville est suivi d'un sous-titre révélateur du parti pris d'humour comme conduite de vie : Fantaisie hylo-idéaliste : autrement dit, histoire qui mêle matière et pensée devenues indissociables. A vrai dire, sous l'apparence séduisante de ces fantaisies, il faut voir combien Oscar Wilde a opté pour la légèreté et le paradoxe comme boucliers contre les pièges du sort. A l'époque, la vie de l'écrivain était déjà diverse, chatoyante, iconoclaste et pleine de contradictions. Il avait fait sa tournée de conférences en Amérique et au Canada pendant toute l'année 1882 ; en 1883, il avait séjourné à Paris où il devait revenir en voyage de noces, marié à la charmante Constance Lloyd. Ses enfants naquirent en 1885 et 1886. Mais n'oublions pas que c'est alors, aussi, qu'il fut séduit par le jeune Robert Ross. C'est donc avec toute cette vie ambivalente et complexe qu'Oscar Wilde compose ces récit dont le brillant cache le cruel progrès des failles... »
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173 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published July 1, 1999
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Oscar Wilde
5,684 books39.2k 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 24, 2020
Hay cuentos muy buenos -hay que decirlo- como el de Ursula K. Le Guin o el de Dino Buzzati, pero hay una cierta disparidad entre las formas narrativas. Algunos cuentos se sienten fuera de lugar, como si faltara un componente para hacerlos realmente fantásticos o imaginativos. Muchos juegan al absurdo o a la sátira (cosa que no está mal), dejando de lado la maravilla del propio cuento de hadas o la incertidumbre de lo fantástico como tal.
A grandes rasgos, es una antología para pasar el rato, descubrir autores y empaparse un poco de qué va el asunto. El prólogo de Gabriel Trujillo me pareció acertado, mas su selección no tanta. Cabe mencionar a los dos latinoamericanos, en especial el de Leopoldo Lugones.
A grandes rasgos, es una antología para pasar el rato, descubrir autores y empaparse un poco de qué va el asunto. El prólogo de Gabriel Trujillo me pareció acertado, mas su selección no tanta. Cabe mencionar a los dos latinoamericanos, en especial el de Leopoldo Lugones.
December 22, 2017
Execelente reunión de bellas historias, no solo entretenidas sino para pensar y reflexionar.
December 11, 2020
Me historia saber que es lo que dice el libro y que lecciones me deja.
June 19, 2022
Bastante entretenidos los diversos relatos pero, hay algunos que no tienen nada fantástico por ejemplo el de Óscar Wilde ese último relato fue muy pesado aunque se entiende lo que quería transmitir.
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July 18, 2019
Excelente selección, salvo por el horrendo, repulsivo y pésimo cuento de Ursula Le Guin que no recomiendo ni siquiera leer. Los demás cuentos son excelentes.
June 21, 2022
2.5 de calificación
La magia de las antologías reside en que muchas veces son las cartas de presentación de autores que, quizá, los lectores no tienen muy presentes.
Los relatos que aquí se reúnen se alejan de nuestra realidad y nos presentan distintas posibilidades. Aunque admito que el libro no llegó a complacerme del todo porque no había un hilo conductor para los relatos. Se nos presentan escritores y escritoras tanto del siglo pasado como del antepasado, todos con una gran imaginación.
Mi relato favorito sin duda fue Jamie Freel y la joven dama, una muestra del folclore irlandés por parte de Letitia Maclintock. En resumen, les recomiendo este libro si están buscando nuevos autores o no quieren leer muchas páginas de una novela de alguno de ellos.
La magia de las antologías reside en que muchas veces son las cartas de presentación de autores que, quizá, los lectores no tienen muy presentes.
Los relatos que aquí se reúnen se alejan de nuestra realidad y nos presentan distintas posibilidades. Aunque admito que el libro no llegó a complacerme del todo porque no había un hilo conductor para los relatos. Se nos presentan escritores y escritoras tanto del siglo pasado como del antepasado, todos con una gran imaginación.
Mi relato favorito sin duda fue Jamie Freel y la joven dama, una muestra del folclore irlandés por parte de Letitia Maclintock. En resumen, les recomiendo este libro si están buscando nuevos autores o no quieren leer muchas páginas de una novela de alguno de ellos.
July 25, 2014
Una buena selección, se nota y se siente que ya tienen sus años, sobre todo en sus moralejas. En si ninguno se siente de más, grata sorpresa que hayan incluido Francisca y la muerte pero el que si me estrujo algo muy dentro fue Los que abandonan Omela, gancho al hígado emocional.
Vale mucho la pena para leerse entre libros o para un fin de semana.
Vale mucho la pena para leerse entre libros o para un fin de semana.
November 11, 2016
Il y a quatre histoires :
- Le crime de Lord Arthur Savile
- Le spectre des Canterville
- Le sphinx sans secret
- Le millionnaire modèle
J'ai vraiment bien aimé. Les deux premiers récits (les plus longs) sont les meilleurs.
- Le crime de Lord Arthur Savile
- Le spectre des Canterville
- Le sphinx sans secret
- Le millionnaire modèle
J'ai vraiment bien aimé. Les deux premiers récits (les plus longs) sont les meilleurs.
November 7, 2011
On ne s'en lasse pas ! Encore !!
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