El Retrato de Dorian Gray

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When the portrait of Dorian Gray was published, the moralizing critic accused his protagonist of being a satanic, corrupt and corrupting figure, without understanding that he was the hero of a novel that reflected the fatality of the romantics: Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) he had wanted to make beauty a refinement of intelligence; and for that he plunged his protagonist into an atmosphere of perversion dominated by art and the powers of a mystery that is beyond reality. But the author goes beyond the simple description: embeds his character in a crime and, like Edgar Allan Poe in his stories, surrounds him with a mystery that reason cannot explain. Dorian Gray remains, more than one hundred years after the death of its author, a cornerstone in the debates between ethics and aesthetics, in relationships that maintain good and evil, soul and body, art and life. Presided by the law of the fatality, Dorian Gray does not stop reaching the objective that Wilde himself wanted for his book