Podizdill. The Picture of Dorian Grey. Wilde O.

“Portrait of Dorian Gray” Oscar Wilde, immediately upon the publication (1890), gained scandalous fame and caused contradictory assessments of contemporaries, became a literary manifesto of European aesthetics and a masterpiece of English artistic prose. In defiantly, abandoning the didactics and moralism of Victorian literature, Wilde, however, wrote a deeply moral book, where art takes revenge for the straightened beauty, devoted love and scolded harmony.

A dramatic, paradoxical, fascinating-thawing story of Dorian Gray is a brilliant example of the “perfect use of imperfect means”, in which, according to Wilde, is the “ethics of art”.