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aristotelian's review
3.0
3.5 stars - I liked it but felt it was cut short being just a one-act play. There was much more potential for development, which I would have enjoyed seeing.
schymek's review
3.0
It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors
bibliocyclist's review
2.0
"My dear fellow," he said, with his usual drawling emphasis, "when I see a monstrous tulip with four wonderful petals in someone else's garden, I am impelled to grow a monstrous tulip with five wonderful petals, but that is no reason why someone should grow a tulip with only three petals."
jordi's review
2.0
Nada que ver con las otras obras de Oscar Wilde.
Parece que los personajes no hacen mas que enfocarse en un tema y hablar de el hasta agotarlo, moverse al siguiente tema, y asi hasta el final.
Quiza no lo he entendido pero no he sacado demasiado de esta lectura.
Parece que los personajes no hacen mas que enfocarse en un tema y hablar de el hasta agotarlo, moverse al siguiente tema, y asi hasta el final.
Quiza no lo he entendido pero no he sacado demasiado de esta lectura.
pivic's review
4.0
Very well-edited, newly translated three-language edition (French, English, Swedish) of Wilde's quite short and very quickly banned play. The annotations are very good, placing the script in a biblical and historical context, even noting where Wilde, for example, uses phrases in his other works. Not my fave tome by Wilde, but still very readable.
annyway47's review
4.0
This play is very different from the other plays by Wilde that I've read. It's a tragedy based on a biblical story, and the writing is accordingly serious. There was no trace of what I came to associate with Wilde's writing - short and profound phrases that make you stop and question the truth of their meaning.
In Salomé the dialogue is very repetitive, the characters often set off ranting and raving almost madly, or speak in almost purple prose.
I've seen this play performed in a theater last year and enjoyed it immensely. This influenced my perception when reading it in print. Have I not seen it, I would probably have had a hard time appreciating it.
In Salomé the dialogue is very repetitive, the characters often set off ranting and raving almost madly, or speak in almost purple prose.
I've seen this play performed in a theater last year and enjoyed it immensely. This influenced my perception when reading it in print. Have I not seen it, I would probably have had a hard time appreciating it.
deathspoets's review
5.0
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The kind of relations and characterisation I'd die for. Salomé is the cruel kind of characters I look for in historical fiction, her mother is the evil queen. And men? Men are all stupid.
The kind of relations and characterisation I'd die for. Salomé is the cruel kind of characters I look for in historical fiction, her mother is the evil queen. And men? Men are all stupid.
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