Oscar Wilde Thread

So Bret Ellis just ripped his main work from Dorian Gray right? What a cunt

I read Huysmans' 'A Rebours' (Against Nature) yesterday. That's the 'Yellow Book' that was such a corrupting influence on Dorian. It really is a fantastic work, an iconoclastic jumble of synesthesia and avarice.

I've only read Dorian Gray by him, but I enjoyed that. His dialogue is very charming, though I feel at times his writing style got either awkward or drawn-out.

And the yellow book exists? Now I'm interested in reading that...

perkunas wrote:I've only read Dorian Gray by him, but I enjoyed that. His dialogue is very charming, though I feel at times his writing style got either awkward or drawn-out.

And the yellow book exists? Now I'm interested in reading that...

It does indeed. Wilde called it "the strangest book that he had ever read", and I highly recommend it. I picked up my (English) copy in Dublin, appropriately enough.

I've read some his plays, Dorian Gray, and The Ballad of Reading Gaol. I like pretty much everything I'm read by the man, he has a superb wit to his writing (I'm not sure if that sentence makes any sense at all).

I picked up my (English) copy in Dublin, appropriately enough.

Are you a Dublin man yourself?

Fergus wrote:Are you a Dublin man yourself?

I'm not, I was just visiting a friend for the weekend. I hail from Edinburgh, Scotland.