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A review by nancyboy56
The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
5.0
there are very few books that depict queer experiences as timeless as the picture of dorian gray. especially in this uncensored version. so much has changed from 1890 and yet so much is still the same. oscar wilde may not have the context of today and our queer language but i believe a lot of queer people relate so much to experiences of homosexuality in the text:
fear of your gay little secret being know despite it being extremely obvious to anyone who has eyes.
failing hopelessly in love with a gay who will never love you back.
those beautifully tragic summer romances.
being the forbidden fruit everyone would like to taste.
attempting to date the "opposite" sex and failing miserably.
trying to live your life by society's rules and that makes quite your homicidal.
having to live your true life in the shadows.
expressing your romantic feeling to the boy your obsessed with and well... shit hits the fan.
wanting to make romeo jealous.
being a repressed little gay forever and always.
believing you're the devil they say you all are so why not act the part.
honestly you could really go on forever with all the queer experiences that the novel talks about. when i say that the uncensored picture of dorian gray is one of the most homosexual novels i have ever read, i truly mean it. nothing else compares.
even oscar wilde's gay erotica Telany, though by contemporary standards i would deem it more literary fiction, doesnt even compare. it may technically have far more very explicit descriptions of homosexuality (and a lot of gay sex) as it follows a relationship between camille and telany. i appreciate how the novel Telany is about a gay man's experience of sexuality through many different sexual encounters, it just doesnt hit the same as dorian gray. Telany's scene feel more dated to the victorian era, plus a bunch of insanely weird plot points that i have idea why oscar wilde included.
even through the queer fiction i read today and its quite a lot, no one seems to have quite the way with words and sheer craft and skill to pack so much into one novel so elegantly. nothing feels undeveloped to me, it feels real, so real. i really dont know how oscar wilde did this.
its a masterpiece that will stand the test of time. i will continue to recite it and think about it every day
fear of your gay little secret being know despite it being extremely obvious to anyone who has eyes.
failing hopelessly in love with a gay who will never love you back.
those beautifully tragic summer romances.
being the forbidden fruit everyone would like to taste.
attempting to date the "opposite" sex and failing miserably.
trying to live your life by society's rules and that makes quite your homicidal.
having to live your true life in the shadows.
expressing your romantic feeling to the boy your obsessed with and well... shit hits the fan.
wanting to make romeo jealous.
being a repressed little gay forever and always.
believing you're the devil they say you all are so why not act the part.
honestly you could really go on forever with all the queer experiences that the novel talks about. when i say that the uncensored picture of dorian gray is one of the most homosexual novels i have ever read, i truly mean it. nothing else compares.
even oscar wilde's gay erotica Telany, though by contemporary standards i would deem it more literary fiction, doesnt even compare. it may technically have far more very explicit descriptions of homosexuality (and a lot of gay sex) as it follows a relationship between camille and telany. i appreciate how the novel Telany is about a gay man's experience of sexuality through many different sexual encounters, it just doesnt hit the same as dorian gray. Telany's scene feel more dated to the victorian era, plus a bunch of insanely weird plot points that i have idea why oscar wilde included.
even through the queer fiction i read today and its quite a lot, no one seems to have quite the way with words and sheer craft and skill to pack so much into one novel so elegantly. nothing feels undeveloped to me, it feels real, so real. i really dont know how oscar wilde did this.
its a masterpiece that will stand the test of time. i will continue to recite it and think about it every day