À rebours is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. The Picture of Dorian Gray was published simultaneously on both sides of the Atlantic in 1890, appearing as a thirteen chapter edition in the July issue of Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine by J.B. Lippincott Company of Philadelphia, printed in the United States by Lippincott's and in the United Kingdom by Ward, Lock & Co.of London (Frankel 4). View entire discussion ( 1 comments) More posts from the television community. (Check out our "Character Analysis" of Dorian Gray for more about the man and the portrait.) The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. It becomes a kind of conscience, and it reminds Dorian constantly of the evil at the heart of his nature.

He is an aristocratic Victorian man. He's certain to have: Dorian Gray A Rebours (Fr natch) Proust (Fr natch) The Glass Bead Game The Trial Narziss and Goldmund The Waves The Years Crime and Punishment. It is also clear that the debauched life of Des Esseintes resonates with Dorian's own personal, hidden, secret wants and needs. It is clear that Wilde molded Dorian Gray after Des Esseintes. The last scion of an aristocratic family, Des Esseintes loathes nineteenth century bourgeois society and tries to retreat into an ideal artistic world of his own creation. or an immoral book,” he gives Dorian a beautiful “yellow book” (again specific in colour juxtaposed to Dorian’s lack of colour as Mr. “Gray”), and this book is certainly corrupting, leading the reader to Huysmans’ novel Á Rebours. Description. It is, in fact, a ‘yellow book’ which corrupts Dorian Gray in Oscar Wilde’s novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray; this generally thought to be Joris-Karl Huysmans’s À rebours (1884). The Yellow Book. A rebour” di Huysman e Il ritratto di Dorian Gray di Wilde Appunto di italiano che prende in esame due romanzi: A rebour” di Huysman e Il ritratto di Dorian Gray di Wilde. Posted by 3 days ago. AuthorOscar Wilde LanguageEnglish GenrePhilosophical fiction, decadent literature Published1890 Lippincott's Monthly Magazine Media typePrint OCLC53071567 Dewey Decimal 823/.8 22 LC ClassPR5819.A2 M543 2003 The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Mont… (The narrative does not reveal the title of the French novel, but at trial, Wilde said that the novel referred to in Dorian Gray was À rebours (Against Nature, 1884) by Joris-Karl Huysmans, but then denied "the book is the one he intended to refer to.) Fearing the story was indecent, prior to publication the magazine's editor deleted roughly five hundred words without Wilde's knowledge. A rebour” di Huysman e Il ritratto di Dorian Gray di Wilde Appunto di italiano che prende in esame due romanzi: A rebour” di Huysman e Il ritratto di Dorian Gray di Wilde. 11: “And, certainly to him Life itself was the first, the greatest of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation.” Explanation: Putting these two quotes in juxtaposition reveals a fundamental difference between Dorian Gray and Des Esseintes’ characters.