El retrato de Dorian Gray stands out not only because it is the only novel by Oscar Wilde but because it is his most lasting work. The misadventures of Dorian Gray, a paradigmatic and witty dandy obsessed with the ephemeral and a panic at the thought of aging, gives us great and absorbent twists and...

El retrato de Dorian Gray stands out not only because it is the only novel by Oscar Wilde but because it is his most lasting work. The misadventures of Dorian Gray, a paradigmatic and witty dandy obsessed with the ephemeral and a panic at the thought of aging, gives us great and absorbent twists and turns that had never been given to a novel before. El retrato de Dorian Gray (1890) destaca no s lo por ser la nica novel de Oscar Wilde, sino tambi n por ser su trabajo m s perdurable. Las desventuras de Dorian Gray, ese dandi paradigm tico y ocurrente obsesionado con lo ef mero, y su p nico a envejecer nos deparan la m s genial y absorbente de las vueltas de tuerca que jam s se le hayan dado a la novela f ustica. La belleza es, de las formas del genio, la m s elevada, porque no tiene necesidad de ser explicada, es uno de los hechos absolutos del mundo.