tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post1140504273575734841..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: No, fools, no, goitrous cretins that you are, a book does not make gelatine soup - but what, M. Gautier, about books of gelatine soup recipes?Amateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-17842838507421027592009-05-31T22:14:08.653-05:002009-05-31T22:14:08.653-05:00Wilde's jewels and fabrics - that's exactly on poi...Wilde's jewels and fabrics - that's exactly on point, since that stuff is all borrowed from a different French writer, J-K Huysmans. From <I>After Nature</I>, I think.<br /><br />That's a great chapter of <I>Dorian Gray</I>, central to the meaning of the book, and, I suspect, more skimmed than read.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-32761617241021609722009-05-30T20:12:12.092-05:002009-05-30T20:12:12.092-05:00I loved the preface of The Picture of Dorian Gray....I loved the preface of <I>The Picture of Dorian Gray</I>. It prepares the reader for a brilliantly overwritten book. Pages at a time dedicated to describing the minutiae of jewels and fabrics.... and for what?<br /><br />For his part in creating the Wilde that I love, I owe Gautier a good reading.Rebecca V. O'Nealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07920443685663707856noreply@blogger.com