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25 February 2018

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The book on the nightstand: The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Ramona Lucarelli

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is, among the classics, the novel I loved most.

History is a pendulum that oscillates between appearance and substance.

Dorian Gray is young and beautiful but perhaps he isn’t fully aware of his beauty, at least not until Lord Henry Wotton dazzles him with his words and, facing the possibility that one day it will all end, leads him to a slow and tragic drift.

I believe that if everyone could fully and fully live his life, give shape to every feeling, expression to every idea, reality to every dream, I believe that the world would welcome such a pure stream of joy to forget all the diseases of medievalism and return to Hellenic ideal.

Seduced by his prose, Dorian will see in art the only way to fix his young image eternally, coming to stipulate a pact that will free him from time, but

every fatality of the body or of the spirit weighs a fatality.

The portrait created for him by Basil Hallward will age in his place but at great cost.

Written in 1891 The Picture of Dorian Gray makes the Irish writer famous and gives the readers a timeless character, as is the case with good literature.

How much of ourselves are we willing to show with the risk of being hurt or used?

The reason why I do not want to expose this portrait is that I fear I have revealed in it the secret of my soul.

The mirror, like The Picture of Dorian Gray, doesn’t lie. Are we ready to look inside ourselves?

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Ph. Sara Cartelli
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She is an art historian, optimistic and empathic by nature. She imagines a world where sow kindness enjoying the little things. She's in love with stories since she was a child, for the Eat Culture she eats books and arts. Per aspera ad astra says the only tattoo on her skin. It reminds her that the road that leads to her dreams is not always easy but that she never gives up.

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