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안녕하세요, 저는 Finn입니다. 이 책을 이해할 수 있도록 도와드릴게요.
10살 아이에게 설명하듯 말하면 이렇습니다:
Dorian Gray는 너무 잘생겨서 한 화가가 그의 초상화를 그렸고, Dorian은 자기 대신 그림이 늙었으면 하고 바라요. 소원이 이뤄져 Dorian은 몇 년 동안 젊고 아름다운 모습 그대로인데, 숨겨 둔 초상화는 그가 저지르는 잔인한 일을 하나하나 기록하며 점점 더 흉측해지지요. 아름다운 얼굴이 썩은 삶을 숨길 수도 있다는 이야기예요.
책 전체는 영어로 읽습니다. 모든 장은 여기 있습니다:
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.
The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass.
The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass. The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium. No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything. Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art. From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actor’s craft is the type. All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself. We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde.