La imagen de Dorian Gray

Written in his distinctively dazzling way, Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author's most popular work. The story of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but although Wilde was attacked by the corrupting influence of the novel, he responded that, in fact, there is "a terrible moral in Dorian Gray." Only a few years later, the book and the aesthetic / moral dilemma it presented became problems in the trials caused by Wilde's homosexual connections, which resulted in his imprisonment. On Dorian Gray's relationship with the autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter: "Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks of me: Dorian what I would like to be, perhaps in other times."