>>7324903
>black straight hair
so, was oscar wilde gay?
>>7325346
I know. The Picture of Dorian Gray is easily the most homoerotic thing I've ever read. I was actually disappointed that Dorian Gray's many sins were glossed over by him reading that 'book with the yellow cover.' The story was building up to crazy sin and vice, then it abruptly jumped forward in time and left it all up to the reader's imagination. On one hand, this is a fine storytelling technique, but on the other hand it feels a bit like a copout.
I bet that's what Oscar Wilde was regretting most when he got thrown in jail for being a fag. Bet he figured that he should have just written explicitly about all that gay sex he was having, instead of merely alluding to it with a book within a book. That would have really pissed the British people off, considering that they were already pretty mad at him just for writing in a flamboyant manner and hinting at sodomy.
>>7325742
Have you read "A rebours"?
>>7325760
No, but from reading the first paragraph on Wikipedia, it sounds like something I'd enjoy. I'll add it to the list.
>>7325774
Its the book with yellow cover Oscar Wilde refers to.
>>7324903
This book was ruined for me as soon as I realized that there were homoerotic undertones.
Still a beautiful text though, I've read it twice.
>>7326251
As long as you look at the homoeroticism through the lens of 19th century sensibilities (as nothing but another flavor of perversity/hedonism, rather than as modern politicized gayness) it doesn't detract from the book at all.
>>7325075
Has any depiction of Dorian Gray ever had light hair?
It seems like every movie has him with dark hair, same as the cover art on all the paperback editions of the book.
>>7326321
best dorian
>>7326251
That's its only redeeming feature tbqh fAm
>>7325079
He was bisexual, but shamelessly flaunted his love for men before a disapproving Victorian society.
>>7325742
see
>>7326277
We shouldn't forget the focal point of the book's theme: Aesthetics. Lord Henry's infatuation deals primarily with Dorian's beauty in of itself. There's little if anything to suggest sexual lust was part of this.
>Over 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in a paperback edition. This volume restores material, including instances of graphic homosexual content, removed by the novel’s first editor, who feared it would be “offensive” to Victorians.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Uncensored-Picture-Dorian-Gray-ebook/dp/B008TS8UV6
>tfw Lord Henry Wotten will never recline languidly while smoking opium in your parlor
>tfw he will never lead you astray into the world of hedonism
Why live
>>7327056
And if he is played by Colin Firth, all the better.
>>7328265
I pictured the guy who played Dumbledore after the best one died.
>>7326251
>Misunderstanding aesthetics this much
Don't look too long or you'll catch the gay.
>>7327056
You can just smoke opium and fap to depraved pornography by yourself, it is essentially the same thing famm
>>7328293
Michael Gambon? Eh, his voice wouldn't be bad for the part. Well, he had the look for a short span of his youth. He's generally looked like a frumpy man to me for most of his career though.
>>7328310
But your cigarettes will never be innumerable because you're not an absurdly rich English man.
